 Later the top speed on some units was raised to 75 km/h so that the G 8.2 could also be used to haul passenger trains.A total of 846 examples of the locomotive were built between 1919 and 1928 for the Prussian state railways and the Deutsche Reichsbahn.Five vehicles, that had been delivered in 1921 to the "Reichsbahndirektion" of Oldenburg, had been equipped with Lentz valve gear as was usual on the Oldenburg machines.