[2] After closure of branch lines across the state and the end of short pick-up goods trains, use of the class dropped.

From 1995, under the newly formed V/Line Freight division, engines Y115, Y151, Y152 and Y169 were running trains on standard gauge, and locomotives Y124 and Y142 were confined to shunting at South Dynon.

Within a few years Y150 had replaced Y115 on standard gauge, with the latter engine shifting to Ballarat as a yard pilot.

These two engines were stored at Newport workshops, then transferred to South Dynon's "rotten row" where they sat for about a decade.

[5] On the 17/2/2013 a mass move of Y class occurred to Newport to be distributed to various heritage operators, locomotives on the train consisted of Y127/VAN/Y102/Y143/Y104/Y108/Y125 Today, four are in service with V/Line as carriage yard shunters and fitted with low speed controls,[6] with others owned by freight operator Pacific National.