diff --git a/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/mod.rs b/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/mod.rs
index ead44ae61..5ba8a7c7b 100644
--- a/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/mod.rs
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ pub use init::{
     enr_to_peer_id, unused_port, unused_tcp_addr, unused_tcp_and_udp_port, unused_tcp_udp,
     unused_udp_addr, unused_udp_port, GETH_TIMEOUT,
 };
-pub use testnet::{NetworkEventStream, Peer, PeerConfig, Testnet};
+pub use testnet::{NetworkEventStream, Peer, PeerConfig, PeerHandle, Testnet};
diff --git a/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/testnet.rs b/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/testnet.rs
index 9999e8fba..9720b7a93 100644
--- a/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/testnet.rs
+++ b/crates/net/network/src/test_utils/testnet.rs
@@ -491,10 +491,12 @@ impl<Pool> PeerHandle<Pool> {
         self.network.peer_id()
     }
 
+    /// Returns the [`PeersHandle`] from the network.
     pub fn peer_handle(&self) -> &PeersHandle {
         self.network.peers_handle()
     }
 
+    /// Returns the local socket as configured for the network.
     pub fn local_addr(&self) -> SocketAddr {
         self.network.local_addr()
     }
diff --git a/crates/net/network/src/transactions/mod.rs b/crates/net/network/src/transactions/mod.rs
index fc796395d..84fb264fd 100644
--- a/crates/net/network/src/transactions/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/net/network/src/transactions/mod.rs
@@ -88,14 +88,21 @@ use self::constants::{tx_manager::*, DEFAULT_SOFT_LIMIT_BYTE_SIZE_TRANSACTIONS_B
 /// The future for inserting a function into the pool
 pub type PoolImportFuture = Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Vec<PoolResult<TxHash>>> + Send + 'static>>;
 
-/// Api to interact with [`TransactionsManager`] task.
+/// Api to interact with [TransactionsManager] task.
+///
+/// This can be obtained via [TransactionsManager::handle] and can be used to manually interact with
+/// the [TransactionsManager] task once it is spawned.
+///
+/// For example [TransactionsHandle::get_peer_transaction_hashes] returns the transaction hashes
+/// known by a specific peer.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct TransactionsHandle {
     /// Command channel to the [`TransactionsManager`]
     manager_tx: mpsc::UnboundedSender<TransactionsCommand>,
 }
 
-/// Implementation of the `TransactionsHandle` API.
+/// Implementation of the `TransactionsHandle` API for use in testnet via type
+/// [`PeerHandle`](crate::test_utils::PeerHandle).
 impl TransactionsHandle {
     fn send(&self, cmd: TransactionsCommand) {
         let _ = self.manager_tx.send(cmd);
@@ -180,8 +187,9 @@ impl TransactionsHandle {
 
 /// Manages transactions on top of the p2p network.
 ///
-/// This can be spawned to another task and is supposed to be run as background service while
-/// [`TransactionsHandle`] is used as frontend to send commands to.
+/// This can be spawned to another task and is supposed to be run as background service.
+/// [`TransactionsHandle`] can be used as frontend to programmatically send commands to it and
+/// interact with it.
 ///
 /// The [`TransactionsManager`] is responsible for:
 ///    - handling incoming eth messages for transactions.
@@ -221,8 +229,13 @@ pub struct TransactionsManager<Pool> {
     /// All the connected peers.
     peers: HashMap<PeerId, Peer>,
     /// Send half for the command channel.
+    ///
+    /// This is kept so that a new [TransactionsHandle] can be created at any time.
     command_tx: mpsc::UnboundedSender<TransactionsCommand>,
     /// Incoming commands from [`TransactionsHandle`].
+    ///
+    /// This will only receive commands if a user manually sends a command to the manager through
+    /// the [TransactionsHandle] to interact with this type directly.
     command_rx: UnboundedReceiverStream<TransactionsCommand>,
     /// Incoming commands from [`TransactionsHandle`].
     pending_transactions: ReceiverStream<TxHash>,
@@ -243,6 +256,7 @@ impl<Pool: TransactionPool> TransactionsManager<Pool> {
         transactions_manager_config: TransactionsManagerConfig,
     ) -> Self {
         let network_events = network.event_listener();
+
         let (command_tx, command_rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
 
         let transaction_fetcher = TransactionFetcher::default().with_transaction_fetcher_config(
diff --git a/examples/network-txpool.rs b/examples/network-txpool.rs
index 7c261f5a3..d0e29e490 100644
--- a/examples/network-txpool.rs
+++ b/examples/network-txpool.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ async fn main() -> eyre::Result<()> {
         .transactions(pool.clone(), transactions_manager_config)
         .split_with_handle();
 
+    // this can be used to interact with the `txpool` service directly
+    let _txs_handle = txpool.handle();
+
     // spawn the network task
     tokio::task::spawn(network);
     // spawn the pool task