[2] This wheel arrangement provided the bulk of the motive power for the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij (NZASM) in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR).

The other eighteen locomotives in this order were delivered directly to the IMR, who diverted two of them to Lourenço Marques in Mozambique.

[5][6][7] Other than examples for export, 0-6-4T locomotives enjoyed a brief vogue in the United Kingdom prior to the First World War, but were not widely used.

Nine locomotives of this type were supplied by Beyer, Peacock & Company for the opening of the Mersey Railway in 1886.

William Dean built three crane tanks in 1901, and Kitson & Company of Leeds supplied nine locomotives to the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway in 1904.

However, in Canada, a pair of conventional 0-6-4T locomotives were built in 1912 as switchers by the Canadian Pacific Railway, lasting until 1951.