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[[File:GWR Class 5700 No 7714 (8062211853).jpg|thumb|200px|right|7714 at Bewdley]]
==7714 in service==
7714 is a GWR Collett 5700 class 0-6-0PT ‘pannier tank’, one of two examples on the SVR (the other being [[GWR Pannier 5764| 5764]]). This was the largest class of engine designed and built by the Great Western Railway; more than 860 were built between 1929 and 1950 (so many were built that they quickly exceeded the original numbering range of 5700-5799). 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.
7714 was built for the GWR by Kerr Stuart & Co. of Stoke, Works No 4449 of 1930. It entered service at Tyseley the same year, and worked until withdrawn by BR in 1959, having run an estimated 520,259 miles in service.
