The ship that transported it to South Australia was wrecked, but the locomotive was salvaged and entered service on the SAR in April 1879 as number 38.

9 for work on the 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) broad gauge Christchurch to Lyttelton line.

On the voyage to South Australia, the ship carrying the rolling stock was wrecked off the coast of New Zealand.

48 shunted the station yard and wharf at Morgan for many years until it was sold to the South Australian Harbours Board in May 1906.

The company used this locomotive to assist with the construction work of the Outer Harbour breakwater, until it was condemned in August 1909 and eventually scrapped.