Actually when Kamlapathi Tripathi was the Railway Minister in the mid 70's there was a beautiful plan.That time the Railways had decided to extend the Daund Chitali line to Shirdi and then join it to Kanhegaon back to the Daund Manmad line.This way all trains plying on the DD MMR route would touch Shirdi.There was no need to make Puntamba a Junction. However, a politician from Maharashtra was hell bent on making Puntamba a Junction and here we aretoday seeing a spur line from Puntamba to Shirdi.