It is a railway junction on the Wardha-Badnera section, Arvi narrow-gauge rail link taking off from here northwards. The main town lies south of the railway and is comparatively a new town sprung out of a collection of hutments of workers employed on the railway bridge over the Wardha river near which the town stands. Hence its name "Pul" meaning Bridge and "gaon" meaning Town. 'Pulgaon' = a Town by the Bridge", sometimes called as the "Bridgetown" from the time of British rule. Its rapid rise in importance is due to the favorable position it occupies in the center of a large cotton-growing tract. Again Pulgaon is on the Mumbai-Nagpur truck route and hence can avail itself of the speedy transport. Added to the post and telegraph, is the telephone exchange which highly facilitates commercial transactions.