However, after a collapse in the price of lead, the heavy mineral traffic for which they were purchased dried up and they were placed in store.

In 1891, E20 was cut up with the parts from one half with adapted to drive machinery at the Fremantle Railway Workshops, the other half was converted into a 2-4-2T tank engine as F20 in February 1893 for use at Fremantle Long Jetty.

It was sold in February 1899 to Jarrah Timber & Wood Paving, Worsley and withdrawn by March 1905.

[3] E7 was withdrawn in 1895 and sold to the Canning Jarrah Timber Company for use on the Upper Darling Range railway.

[5] The E-class designation was reused for the WAGR E class locomotives that were introduced in 1902.