Pig iron
The workings at Cleator Moor exemplified the line's role. The station was next to a branch to Cleator Moor's dominant ironworks run by the Workington Haematite Iron Company. Iron ore arrived there from the east, via the rival Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway. Coke arrived via the C&amp;WR branch, then Pig iron then went out the same way and headed north along the C&amp;WR, typically bound for Scotland, either via Carlisle or via the Solway Viaduct.