On 1 January 1830 the motive power owned by the Company was entirely equine, consisting of Hector, Dick, Captin Darling, Prince, Diamond, Rattler, Brisk and Poney [sic. (Independent traders had their own stable.) These horses worked through as far as Kirkintilloch on the M&KR system, but when the M&KR acquired locomotives in 1831 that railway worked trains over the Ballochney system as far as the foot of the inclines. In 1832 the Company disposed of its horses, leaving all the horse power provision to independent hauliers.