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[[File:GWR Class 5700 No 5764 Pannier (3000285676).jpg|thumb|200px|right|5764 at Bewdley]]
==5764 in service==
5764 is a GWR Collett 5700 class 0-6-0PT ‘pannier tank’, one of two examples on the SVR (the other being [[GWR Pannier 7714| 7714]]). This was the largest class of engine designed and built by the Great Western Railway; more than 860 were built between 1929 and 1950. Pannier tanks could be found at work all over the former GWR system and although designed primarily for shunting duties, they were regularly used on local freight and passenger workings. The class was rated 4F by British Railways.
5764 was built at Swindon and entered service in 1929 at London’s Old Oak Common depot. It remained at that depot post-War, serving the GWR and BR for more than thirty years before being withdrawn by BR in May 1960 having run an estimated 520,259 miles in service.
