 R 28 is the only original British Single Fairlie to have survived, the Festinog's "Taliesin" is a replica built in 1999.The remains of another, R 271, was dumped at Oamaru to protect the railway yards against coastal erosion in 1930, and has since passed into the ownership of the Oamaru Steam & Rail Society.Two more R class boilers, and two power bogies from one each B and E class Double Fairlies are held by the Canterbury Railway Society at their Ferrymead Railway in Christchurch.