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{{Infobox GWR steam loco|image = GWR Prairie Class 5100 No 5164 (8062220732)5164_20100522.jpg|caption = 5164 at Bridgnorth in 2005Highley (2010)

|rating = GWR: D, BR: 4MT|axleload = GWR: Blue

|power = 24,300 lb|pressure = 200 lb/sq in}}'''5164''' is a '''GWR Collett 5101 class 2-6-2T 'Large Prairie''''. The 5101 Class was an updated version by CB Collett of Churchward's 1903 3100/5100 Class. Built from 1929 to 1949, these medium-sized tank engines were used all over the GWR network for suburban and local passenger and local freight services. Their increased axle loading of 17 tons 12 cwt was the maximum permitted for [[GWR Power and Weight Classification | 'Blue' route availability]], while their [[GWR Power and Weight Classification|power class]] was rated D (GWR) and 4MT (BR). A total of 140 were produced; after available numbers in the 51xx range were exhausted were exhausted, later examples were numbered in the 41xx range.

5164 is a GWR Collett 5101 A number of the class 2-6-2T 'Large Prairie'were allocated to the sheds at [[Worcester]], [[Kidderminster Shed|Kidderminster]], Stourbridge and [[Shrewsbury#Shrewsbury Shed|Shrewsbury]] from where they were [[Locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service|regularly used on the Severn Valley Branch]] on both freight and passenger services after the 1950s. These medium-sized tank engines Other examples from Wolverhampton Stafford Road and Tyseley were used all over also seen on the GWR network Branch from time to time.<ref name=SVR20>SVR News 20</ref> The pictures below show classmates 4114 preparing to leave [[Bridgnorth]] with a passenger service for suburban Shrewsbury in July 1959, 4175 with an Up goods at [[Bewdley]] in April 1962, and local passenger 4153 on the coaling road at Kidderminster Shed (undated). Other class members photographed in use on the branch include 4100 in 1955,<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Mitchell and Smith (2007)]] fig. 98.</ref> and local freight services4129<ref>SVR News 16, photo by Brian Moone)</ref>. British Railways rated The SVR's [[GWR Large Prairie 4150|4150]] is also a member of the class 4MTand having entered service at Stourbridge in 1947, may also have worked on the branch although no photographs are known to exist. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">4114 at Bridgnorth.jpg|4114 at Bridgnorth (Peter Shoesmith collection) PGH BewdleyGoods.jpg|4175 at Bewdley (PG Hindley collection)Kidderminster Shed.jpg|4153 at Kidderminster Shed (right)</gallery>

5164 was built at the GWR Swindon Works and as part of Lot 259 at a cost of £4,220.<ref name="5164org">5164.org</ref> The locomotive entered service at Tyseley in November 1930.<ref>[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/262_5100det.htm GWR Archive] (Retrieved 28 January 2015).</ref> Post-War It remained allocated to the Wolverhampton region until 1956, principally at Tyseley but also at Wolverhampton Stafford Road and Wellington. Duties included the locomotive haulage of local trains from Birmingham Snow Hill to Kidderminster and thence onto the Severn Valley Branch itself.<ref name="5164org">5164.org</ref> During its working life it was still at allocated to Tyseley10 times, with the longest stay 3 years and the shortest 4 months.<ref name="PR1221"/> In August 1956, moving it was allocated to Wellington and Newton Abbot in , working local trains and also acting as a banker on the mid-1950sDainton and Rattery Banks. BR service ended <ref name="5164org" /> In July 1959, it had an overhaul at Swindon with boiler 5743 being fitted.<ref name="PR1221">EMF Press Release issued 14 December 2021</ref> 5164's last move was to Pontypool Road in October 1961. On 4 April 1963the loco was condemned with a slipping driving tyre,<ref name="PR1221"/> having amassed 67,447 miles from its last overhaul at Swindon and 811,367 miles in service.<ref> [http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=103347&loco=5164 BRDatabase] Retrieved 28 January 2015</ref> It was sold to [[Barry Scrapyard]] on 9 October 1963 and moved the following month.<ref name="PR1221"/ref>

By summer 1971, with a 5700 Pannier Tank and 4500 'Small Prairie' already secured for the SVR, purchase of a 'Large Prairie' was seen as the next logical step. A fund was established, organised by Mr. R.E. 'Bob' Sim, and No. 5164 arrived was chosen as the best of the 10 'Large Prairies' at Barry. It was reserved for purchase 'with the usual help from [[Mr Woodham' while an appeal for fund raising took place.<ref name=SVR20/> <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">S2445_5164_Barry_David_Cooke.jpg|5164 at Barry (David Cooke)</gallery> Purchase was successfully completed at a cost of £2,250.<ref name="5164org" /> The locomotive was officially the 30th to leave Barry,<ref>The Barry Scrapyard]] Story, Beckett & Hardingham, 2010</ref>, arriving on the SVR on 6 January 1973in the company of [[GWR 4930 Hagley Hall]] and [[GWR 7819 Hinton Manor]]. The initial owners were [[The 5164 Preservation Group]].  ===First boiler ticket===Restoration took place at Bewdley, with a team led by Pete Simpson. By September 1974 the engine had been completely stripped down. The tyres all needed reprofiling which, if done, would have left sufficient material for one further turning. However with a loose tyre having brought about the locomotive's withdrawal from service, the decision was completed taken to replace all the tyres, the work being carried out by the BSC Railway Materials Division at Rotherham. The tanks and bunker were overhauled by Wagon Repairs Ltd of Stoke-on-Trent. The boiler was refitted on 3 May 1976 as part of the [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1970-1979#1976|'150 ton big lift']] which saw the lifting of 5 boilers and 2 frames in a single day.<ref>SVR News 40</ref> 5164 was not steamed until 20 October 1979 when , by which time the entire restoration was effectively complete, as by the following week the locomotive had moved to Bridgnorth ready for use on that December's Bridgnorth to [[Hampton Loade]] [[Christmas services]]. It formally entered service in December, performing faultlessly and recording the highest mileage of the three locomotives used.<ref>SVR News 54, 55</ref>  5164 was taken out of service in late summer 1980 for some 'finishing touches' and a full repaint.<ref>SVR News 56</ref> Retuning to service in 1981, the locomotive suffered some frost damage during the following winter<ref>SVR News 63</ref> but continued in service until being withdrawn due to tube failures in July 1984.<ref>SVR News 73</ref> Mileage recorded during the first timeboiler ticket was as follows:<ref>SVR News 152 pp. 24-25</ref>  {| class="wikitable"! <b>Year</b> !! style="text-align:right;" | <b>Mileage</b> |-| 1979 || style="text-align:right;" | 510|-|1980 || style="text-align:right;" |1,765|-|1981 || style="text-align:right;" |4,451|-|1982 || style="text-align:right;" |4,379|-|1983 || style="text-align:right;" |3,291|-|1984 || style="text-align:right;" |2,215|-| <b>Total</b> || style="text-align:right;" | 16,611|}   ===Second boiler ticket===After service ended in July 1984, a heavy overhaul was deemed necessary including boiler crown stays and side stays and a full mechanical repair.<ref>SVR News 76 p. 16.</ref> 5164 was scheduled to appear as a static exhibit at the following year's GWR 150 exhibition at Swindon<ref>SVR News 75</ref>, although the event was subsequently cancelled when British Rail Engineering Ltd (BREL) insensitively announced the closure of the Swindon Works in the anniversary year.  A lengthy period out of service in the 'overhaul queue' followed. By the end of 1999 some component refurbishment had been carried out, hampered by the lack of machine shop facilities at Bewdley. By summer 2001 5164 was 'next in line to be put through the shops' at Bridgnorth. In summer 2002 work on the boiler was under way, with the [[The Erlestoke Manor Fund|Erlestoke Manor Fund]] team assisting the boilersmiths in de-tubing and de-staying. The mechanical overhaul was also starting and new side tanks were being fabricated.<ref>SVR News 136, 140, 142</ref>. The boiler was steamed in mid-2003, and a new hopper ash-pan wad being fabricated to complement the new rocking grate already made by Pete Simpson at Bewdley. The overhaul was completed the following year with a passenger train test run on 12 May.<ref>SVR News 145, 147</ref>  <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">GWR Prairie Class 5100 No 5164 (8062220732).jpg | 5164 at Bridgnorth in 2005 (Wikimedia Commons)</gallery> 5164 saw out a full "10 year ticket", including visits to the West Somerset Railway in Autumn 2006 and the Mid Hants Railway in spring 2013. However by 2013 the locomotive was "''sounding extremely tired and worn out at the front end''"<ref>SVR News 183</ref> and with valves "''playing a tune unbecoming of a steam engine''".<ref>SVR News 184</ref> Service ended in early January 2014, with mileage recorded during the second boiler ticket as follows (X indicates not recorded in SVR News):<ref>SVR News 185 p. 12</ref>{| class="wikitable"! <b>Year</b> !! style="text-align:right;" | <b>Mileage</b> |-|B/fwd || style="text-align:right;" | 16,611|-| 2004 || style="text-align:right;" | 8,138|-| 2005 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2006 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2007 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2008 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2009 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2010 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2011 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2012 || style="text-align:right;" | X|-| 2013 || style="text-align:right;" | 8,556|-| <b>Total</b> || style="text-align:right;" | 92,447|} ===Current status===Following withdrawal, 5164 resumed its place in the SVR's 'overhaul queue'. In March 2014 it was moved to the Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre,<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=964 SVR-Online forum thread 'GWR 2-6-2T 5164'] (Retrieved 14 February 2017)</ref><ref>[http://www.barrowhill.org/collections.html Barrow Hill Roundhouse] (Retrieved 26 January 2020)</ref> where it could be stored under cover as a static exhibit. While there it was cared for by members of the owning group, The 5164 Preservation Group. However the Group was an unincorporated organisation with a small and diminishing group of shareholders. In 2020 the remaining shareholders agreed to offer the locomotive to the [[The Erlestoke Manor Fund]] for a nominal sum in order to secure the locomotive’s future within an incorporated, charitable organisation strongly affiliated to the SVR.<ref>EMF Newsletter no 75 August 2020</ref>.  After negotiations between the Group, the EMF and the SVR, the transfer of ownership to the EMF for a nominal sum was completed in November 2021.<ref>EMF Newsletter no 78, November 2021</ref>  In January 2022 the EMF announced that their members had agreed to a change of the Fund's Articles, allowing fund raising for an overhaul to begin.<ref>[https://www.erlestokemanorfund.co.uk/announcement-emf-shareholders-approve-proposal-to-restore-5164-to-steam/ EMF Announcement January 2022]</ref> In July 2022 the EMF announced the launch of an appeal to raise funds to return 5164 to service<ref>[https://www.erlestokemanorfund.co.uk/the-big-large-prairie-appeal-returning-5164-to-service/ EMF: ''The Big "Large Prairie" Appeal – Returning 5164 to service''] (retrieved 1 August 2022)</ref>.

In April 2023 the EMF advised that they had accepted an invitation for 5164 last saw service in January 2014. While awaiting its next overhaulto appear at the Warley Model Railway Exhibition at the Birmingham NEC on 25-26 November 2023, with the movement being used as an effective way of returning the locomotive closer to home ahead of its overhaul actively commencing once 7802 has been lent returned to Barrow Hill Roundhousesteam.<ref>EMF Newsletter no 81, where it may be seen on display.April 2023</ref>

==Film and television==*A short clip of 5164 appeared in the Series 1 Episode 1 of the 2017 BBC drama series '[[Decline and Fall]]'. *The locomotive is owned by the final episode of [[The Box Of Delights]] ends with a brief scene involving 5164 Preservation Groupat [[Arley|Condicote]].

*[[Steam Locomotives]]*[[GWR Large Prairie 4141]] (classmate resident on the SVR between 1973 and 1988, left before restoration was completed)*[[SVR-based locomotives visiting other events]]<br>*[[Locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service|Classes of locomotives used on the Severn Valley Branch in commercial service]]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_5101_Class| 5101 class on Wikipedia]*[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_262.htm 5101 tank class introduction on the Great Western Archive] *[http://5164.org.uk/ Unofficial 5164 web site, no longer updated]*[http://www.barrowhill.org/ Barrow Hill Roundhouse web site]