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The '''Pench Valley Coalfield Railway''' was a privately owned 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) line , length 22 miles (36km). The line ran from the Pench and Kanhan coalfields to [[Pench ValleyChhinwara]] coalfield ; where it connected to the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]](BNR) [[Satpura Railway]] network centred on [[Nagpur]]. The line opened in 1906-7 and was worked by BNR. <ref>[[Great Indian Peninsula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhindwara_railway_station Chhindwara RailwayStation]](GIPR); Retrieved 02 Jan 2016</ref><ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nkPUnn3HiZoC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=Pench+Valley+Coal+Field+Railway&source=bl&ots=py-3eithQg&sig=urKiKua-anx42REHV73dpdbF-Qw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9dxvVa7vC4GxU6OugNAB&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Pench%20Valley%20Coal%20Field%20Railway&f=false Google Books - “Spatial Framework and Economic Development: A Geographical Perspective – Railways in IndiaCoalfields” by Shri Kamal Sharma page 159]; Retrieved 02 Jan 2016</ref><ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=gu_cN0MhteMC&pg=PA771&lpg=PA771&dq=Railway+Pench+Valley+Coalfield&source=bl&ots=wce8DYbiHd&sig=Y88fPBxFLvBcnWBdprJe12ORPHQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kAmQVb3nNIHqUvK1qbAN&ved=0CEoQ6AEwCQ Google Books “Gonds of the Central Indian Highlands" by B.H.Administration Report for the Year 1916-17Mehta, Vol II; page 770 published 1984]; Government Central Press, Calcutta 1918Retrieved 02 Jan 2016</ref> The expansion of the Pench and Kanhan coalfields required an additional outlet and the Eastern Section broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_meGauge|BG]]) branch of the [[Itarsi-Nagpur Railway]] was opened in 1915.<ref>[http://nagpurdspace.nicgipe.ac.in/gazetteerxmlui/bitstream/handle/gaz196610973/final_gazettee18185/comm1GIPE-015962.html Nagpur Gazetteer 1966pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y "Railways in India – GOI Administrative Report 1916-17" page 14]; Retrieved 02 Jan 2016</ref>