Peddapalli–Karimnagar–Nizamabad railway line (177 km) was sanctioned by the late Shri.
P.V. Narasimha Rao who was the 10th Prime Minister of India in the year of 1993. It took 23 years to be completed in a phased manner. The section between Peddapalli and Karimnagar was completed and services were started in 2001. It took another 6 years to complete the stretch between Karimnagar and Jagityal. Passenger trains were extended till Jagityal from 2007. On 29 December 2016 upon the completion of railway tracks between
Jagityal and
Mortad, the
DEMU trains were further extended till Morthad mandal of Nizamabad district and passenger trains began moving between Karimnagar–Morthad and Peddapalli–Jagityal. After the fund allocation for the remaining section between Morthad and Nizamabad, the works were accelerated and within a year the Peddapalli–Nizamabad line via Karimnagar was ready for operations and the services began from 25 March 2017, it took 3.5 years to electrify the complete line, started in 2018 oct and completed in feb 2022. The overall stretch took nearly 24 years in total to complete along with single electric line. In the near future, passengers can link to this line once the
Kothapalli-Manoharabad line is complete, via Kothapalli (Karimnagar). In October 2023, the Karimnagar-Nizamabad
MEMU was extended up to
Bodhan. In 2025, the Pedapalli Bypass line opened, which allows for trains to bypass the Pedapalli railway station, increasing efficiency and shortening total travel time for passengers. == Stations ==