The railway transported a wide variety of products, from resource traffic to intermodal freight.

Locally, the railway mostly transports construction goods, coal, timber, petroleum and agricultural produce.

The railway also transports goods like food, post and fuel.

The railways brought coal to fuel the tea factories, and above all transported labour to work the plantations.

By 1906, the railway had transported 1,743,734 passengers along its routes with 92 daily trains.

This railway would transport materials and supplies over three miles to the site both during construction and operation.

During the first 56 days in 2010, the railway transported 1.108 million people, or 43 thousand per day.

The Transandean railway could transport only limited amounts of cargo.

In the three years preceding September 1839, the railway transported an average of 30,000 people each year.

The railways allowed coal to be mined, and then transported to the coast before being put onto ships to London and even abroad.