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}}[[File:GWR 6634 20171108.jpg|thumb|300px|right|6634 awaiting collection in November 2017]]'''GWR 5600 class 6634''' was resident on the SVR between 2009 and 2017 but was never steamed.
The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive designed by Collett and built between 1924 and 1928. They were based on the Rhymney Railway 1904 M class and 1909 R class locomotives. In 1923 the GWR absorbed a variety of locomotives from pre-Grouping Welsh railway companies, many of 0-6-2T configuration, and built two hundred locomotives of the 5600 class to replace part of that fleet. Numbered in the 5600 and 6600 series, most were built at Swindon, however 6650-6699 were built by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The last of the class remained in service until the end of BR(WR) steam in 1965. The class was not used on the Severn Valley Branch in service due to its [[GWR Power and Weight Classification#GWR route classification colours| 'Red' axle weight classification]], although [[Tales from the Severn Valley#The overweight locomotive|one was allowed to work a coal train to Alveley Colliery by mistake]]. The class was however used on trains for [[Stourport Power Station]].<ref>[http://www.miac.org.uk/stourportps.html Booth, A., 'CEGB, Stourport Power Station', Railways in Worcestershire] (Retrieved 20 November 2020)</ref>
Nine of the class have survived into preservation, of which [[GWR 5600 Class 5619|5619]] has also appeared on the SVR.
==See also==
[[Former Residents]]<br>
[[The Waterman Railway Heritage Trust]]<btbr>
[[Locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service|Classes of locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service]]
