Throughout its lifetime, the yard handled loaded and empty coal and coke wagons almost to the exclusion of other traffic.

Coke wagons by Henry H. Henson.

Also described as an "open coke wagon", it was intended for the transportation of almost all not-hygroscopic goods, especially bulk goods such as coal, sand or agricultural produce.

In 1882 the company produced its first machine for pushing coke out of a coke oven, and by 1900 was manufacturing a range of equipment for mechanisation of coke production, including coke wagons and locomotives.