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5164 is a GWR Collett 5101 class 2-6-2T 'Large Prairie'. These medium-sized tank engines were used all over the GWR network for suburban and local passenger and local freight services. British Railways rated the class 4MT.
==5164 in service==
5164 was built at the GWR Swindon Works and 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 the locomotive was still at Tyseley, moving to Wellington and Newton Abbot in the mid-1950s. BR service ended at Pontypool Road in April 1963.<ref> [http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=103347&loco=5164 BRDatabase] Retrieved 28 January 2015.</ref>