In Fiction
5775 on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway featured in the film The Railway Children painted brown and lettered for the "Great Northern and Southern Railway".
"Duck the Great Western Engine" in The Railway Series books by the Rev. W Awdry and the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is a 5700 Class pannier tank- His number was 5741.
No. 5764 appeared several times in the 1976 BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens' short ghost story, The Signal-Man.
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