These locomotive supplemented and replaced the smaller Class Hs and was used for shunting at almost every station on the DSB network.

[2] A total of 10 class F locomotives have been preserved, mainly those built in 1949; some of them are operational, and six are located in Denmark.

[4][5] F 656 was purchased by Richard Hurlock in 1975 for 17,000 kroner, and brought to Peterborough for use on the Nene Valley Railway, which opened in 1977.

In 2004, the locomotive underwent a major overhaul lasting 20 years and returned to working order in February 2024.

[6] F 654 was used by the Angeln Steam Railway in Germany for its museum train until it was withdrawn in 2017; by then it was in need of boiler repairs.