Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was a line owned by the provincial government and operated by the state railways. The line ran from

Nagpur Nagpur (pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːɡpuːɾ is the third largest city and the winter capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nag ...

via

Tumsar Tumsar is a city and the headquarters of Tumsar Taluka in Bhandara district of Maharashtra, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, s ...

Gondia Gondia (also spelled Gondiya) is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra which serves the administrative headquarters of the eponymous administrative district. Gondia is also known as ''Rice City'' due to the abundance ...

and Dongargarh to

Rajnandgaon Rajnandgaon is a city in Rajnandgaon District, in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. the population of the city was 163,122. Rajnandgaon district came into existence on 26January 1973, as a result of the division of Durg district. History O ...

. The initial section from

was opened on 6 July 1880, continuing to

Tirora Tirora is a city and a municipal council in Gondia district of Maharashtra, India. Demographics India census, Tirora had a population of 25,181. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Tirora has an average literacy rate ...

on 21 February 1881,

on 18 May 1881,

Amgaon Amgaon is a town located in Gondia district of Nagpur Division in the state of Maharashtra, India.Amgoan has total 17,897 Urban population which rank 3rd in Gondia District after Gondia and Tirora. Location Amgaon is a town in Gondia district ...

on 25 November 1881 and completed to

on 16 February 1882. The Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was transferred to be operated by the

Bengal Nagpur Railway The Bengal Nagpur Railway was one of the companies which pioneered development of the railways in eastern and central India. It was succeeded first by Eastern Railway and subsequently by South Eastern Railway. History The opening of the ...

in year 1888 and was converted into

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in the same year itself. The new track from Rajnandgaon to

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was later laid since 1888 onwards under BNR.Imperial gazetteer of India, Volume 10 by Sir William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain. India Office, 1908

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