This last remaining section was worked using an unknown 0-4-0 side tank locomotive for several more years.

As side tank locomotives, the C30 class had no such safety restrictions, and so they also took up these additional duties.

Two 2-4-0 side tank locomotives were ordered from Sharp, Stewart and Company for the opening of the line.

These consisted of ten 4-wheeled coaches and two 4-4-0 Beyer Peacock side tank locomotives.

No 9, also from Hudswell Clarke, was a six-wheeled side tank locomotive, otherwise similar to no 8.

The line was initially worked by three 2-4-0 side tank locomotives built by the Yorkshire Engine Company .

During his career on the Great Western Railway Holden developed an 0-4-0T side tank locomotive for shunting work.

The BPRP had two 0-4-2 side tank locomotives, possibly from the St Helens Railway.

The NGR's first venture into narrow gauge railway operation was on a line between Estcourt and Weenen, where the earlier Hunslet Side Tank locomotives were placed in service in 1906.

The Manx Northern Railway's first two engines were provided by Sharp, Stewart and Company for the line's opening in 1879 and were 2-4-0 side tank locomotives bearing the names Ramsey and Northern.

After transfer of the colliery assets to the National Coal Board, the Wemyss Private Railway obtained a former Caledonian Railway six wheel side tank locomotive built in 1899, formerly in British Railways service.

The Great Southern and Western Railway Class 201 was a class of ten 0-6-0 side tank locomotives designed by Locomotive Engineer, H. A. Ivatt in 1887 for shunting heavy goods trains at Kingsbridge and Cork yards.

The locomotives were built to two designs: the first four were originally side tank locomotives and are collectively known as the Small England class; the final two locomotives were delivered with saddle tanks and are known as the Large England class.

Several designs of side tank locomotive were produced that shared a chassis and boiler with a saddle tank design and it is not unknown for a standard chassis from one design to used with a different design's standard boiler to produce a locomotive to suit a customers special requirements.