 In this form they were used, paired with a standard (Second class) M car, as locomotives for E trains.These trains ran to the end of the electrified overhead sections at Lilydale and Frankston, hauling non-electrified passenger trains.There the motor cars would be cut off, the remaining carriages split, and steam engines took each portion to Warburton & Healesville or Mornington & Stony Point respectively.