 TGR appropriately reactivated DS 5, which was sent to Burnie and worked there for several months.It was later returned to TGR, and was finally written off and scrapped in 1956 at the Launceston Railway Workshops.Today, the last remnant of the DS class (other than the New Zealand Railways builders' plates) is the superheated boiler from DS 8 (WF 392), owned by the Van Diemen's Light Railway Society and stored at their Don River Railway.