The 14th Class proved so reliable on the Beira line that eight locomotives were sold to CFM in 1939 for £13,000 each, when they had originally cost £10,634! The remainder No.’s 233-240, thus including this locomotive No. 233 were used on various branch lines at Bulawayo, Gwelo and Salisbury. In 1951 No. 233 was renumbered No. 500 and in the 1970’s hauled the main line train on the Umtali – Beira line. This came to an end with Mozambique’s Independence when No.’s 500-507 returned to Bulawayo.

In 1975 No. 500 was given a repaint and transferred to the Bulawayo Railway Museum. From 1979, the four remaining operating locomotives No’s 501, 505-507 worked in the Bulawayo shunting yards, but by 1983 No’s 501 and 506 had been involved in accidents and 505 was condemned, leaving just 507 still running.

No. 507 worked a Bulawayo to Mbala Mbala freight train in 1984 for an unfinished film called Matabele Steamer, before joining the NRZ Railway Museum as a working exhibit.