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===Carriages and wagons===
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[[Category:Railway 200 events]]
[[Category:Railway 200 events]]
[[Category:The Greatest Gathering]]
[[Category:The Greatest Gathering]]

Latest revision as of 22:58, 21 June 2025

The Greatest Gathering is a depot open day scheduled to take place between 1 and 3 August at Derby's Litchurch Lane works as part of the Railway 200 celebrations. The event, being hosted by site owners and train manufacturer Alstom, is being billed as 'the largest temporary gathering of trains and rail-related exhibits in a generation'.

Visiting rolling stock

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Numerous items of rolling stock from across railway generations are scheduled to visit the event, with more still to be announced. Exhibits started arriving in May 2025, with some coming by road and others by rail.

Steam locomotives

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
1 'Locomotion' 1826 National Railway Museum
20 Furness Railway 1863
1000 Midland Railway 1902 National Railway Museum Thursday 22 May 2025
1054 London & North Western Railway Webb Coal Tank 1888 Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Courtesy of The Bahamas Locomotive Society
4930 'Hagley Hall' Great Western Railway 1929 Severn Valley Railway
6023 'King Edward II' Great Western Railway 1930 Courtesy of the Great Western Society
13268 London Midland and Scottish Railway 1934 Courtesy of the Stanier Mogul Fund
35018 'British India Line' Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class 1945 West Coast Railways, Carnforth
35028 'Clan Line' Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class 1948 Courtesy of the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society
44932 London Midland & Scottish Railway Stanier Class 5 1945 West Coast Railways, Carnforth
45596 'Bahamas' London Midland and Scottish Railway LMS Jubilee Class 1934 Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Courtesy of The Bahamas Locomotive Society
45699 'Galatea' London Midland and Scottish Railway LMS Jubilee Class 1936 Masquerading as 45626 'Sierra Leone'
46115 'Scots Guardsman' London Midland and Scottish Railway 1927 West Coast Railways, Carnforth
46203 'Princess Margaret Rose' London Midland and Scottish Railway LMS Princess Royal Class 1935 Courtesy of the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust
60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' London and North Eastern Railway LNER Class A4 1937 Courtesy the Sir Nigel Gresley Trust, operated by Locomotive Services Limited
73129 British Railways BR Standard 5MT 1956 Midland Railway Centre - Butterley
92214 British Railways BR Standard 9F Great Central Railway
London Midland and Scottish Railway West Coast Railways, Carnforth LMS Black 5, identity TBC

Diesel locomotives

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
08721 'Ken Davies' British Railways Class 08 1960 BR Blue Derby Litchurch Lane N/A
D8568 British Railways Class 17 BR Blue Severn Valley Railway Courtesy of the Diesel Traction Group
20007 British Railways Class 20 1957
20205 British Railways Class 20
D5910 Class 23
D5054 'Phil Southern' Class 24 1959 East Lancashire Railway
26007 Class 26 1958
31108 Class 31 1959
33012 Class 33 1960
D7076 Class 35 1962
D6700 Class 37 1959
37401 'Mary Queen of Scots' Class 37
37418 'An Comunn Gàidhealach' Class 37 1963 Courtesy of Loram
37501 'Teesside Steelmaster' Class 37 1961
37508 Class 37 1963 Courtesy of Loram
Class 37 West Coast Railways, Carnforth Identity TBC
D821 'Greyhound' Class 42 1960
40013 'Andania' Class 40 1959
40106 'Atlantic Conveyor' Class 40 1960
43159 Class 43
Class 43/4 Courtesy of RailAdventure
Class 43/4 Courtesy of RailAdventure
44004 'Great Gable' Class 44 1959
45118 'The Royal Artilleryman' Class 45
46045 Class 46 BR Blue Midland Railway Centre - Butterley
47593 'Galloway Princess' Class 47
47715 'Rail Engineering Solutions - Quality Assured' Class 47 1964 Network SouthEast
Class 47 West Coast Railways, Carnforth Identity TBC
50033 'Glorious' Class 50 1968
50035 'Ark Royal' Class 50 1968
50044 'Exeter' Class 50 1968
50049 'Defiance' Class 50 1968
D1015 'Western Champion' Class 52 1963
D1062 'Western Courier' Class 52 1963
D9000 'Royal Scots Grey' Class 55 1961 BR Green
55009 'Alycidon' Class 55 1961
D9015 'Tulyar' Class 55 1961
55019 'Royal Highland Fusilier' Class 55 1961
56301 Class 56 Courtesy of DC Rail and Cappagh Group
57003 Class 57
Class 57/0 Courtesy of West Coast Railways, identity TBC
57307 'Lady Penelope' Class 57
57313 'Scarborough Castle' Class 57 Courtesy of West Coast Railways
58023 Class 58 1984
60099 Class 60 Courtesy of DC Rail and Cappagh Group
66004 Class 66 1998
66301 Class 66
66501 'Spirit of '65' Class 66 1999
67005 'King's Messenger' Class 67 2000
70008 Class 70 2009

Electric locomotives

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
12 'Sarah Siddons' Metropolitan Railway 1922 Ruislip depot Courtesy of London Underground
83012 Class 83 1968 Friday 23 May 2025
85006 Class 85 1961 Tuesday 27 May 2025
86101 'Sir William Stanier FRS' Class 86 1965 InterCity Swallow
86401 'Mons Meg' Class 86 1966 Caledonian Sleeper Blue
87002 'Royal Sovereign' Class 87 1973
90018 Class 90 1988
91101 'Flying Scotsman' Class 91 1988
91110 'Battle of Britain Memorial Flight' Class 91 1989
92011 Class 92 1994
Class 93 Courtesy of Rail Operations Group, identity TBC

Multiple units

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
51941
52064 		Class 108
142013 Class 142 1985
150235 Class 150
313201 Class 313 1976 BR Blue/Grey Courtesy 400 Series Preservation Group and Peter Spokes
323221 Class 323 1995
Northern Class 331
Class 350
390119 'Progress' Virgin Trains Class 390
3417 'Gordon Pettit' Class 423 1967
76297
71163
70823
76324 		Class 438 London Transport maroon Ruislip depot Courtesy of London Underground
465908 'Chris Green' Class 465 Network SouthEast
507001 Class 507 1978
720506 Greater Anglia Class 720 2022
London Northwestern Railway Class 730
Greater Anglia Class 755
799201 Class 799

Carriages and wagons

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
IIA-D
JNA-T
17 'Florence Nightingale' / 45029 LMS Inspection Saloon 1942 London Transport maroon Ruislip depot Courtesy of London Underground
975025 'Caroline' Southern Region General Manager's Saloon 1958 London Transport maroon Ruislip depot Courtesy of London Underground

Narrow gauge and miniature

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
'Anne' 0-6-0-T 2004 Perrygrove Railway
'Katie' 0-4-0T 1896 Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
'Prince' Ffestiniog Railway Ffestiniog Railway 0-4-0TT 1863 Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways
'The Derby Express'

2025

Built for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (iMechE) Railway Challenge, courtesy of the University of Derby and Alstom
'Trangkil No. 4' 0-4-0ST 1971 Statfold Barn Railway

Other exhibits

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Number Original Operator Class Year Built Livery Usual Home Arrived at Derby Notes
G-NLSE Network Rail Aerospatiale AS355F2 Ecureuil II
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