The Greatest Gathering

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

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

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
45596 'Bahamas'	London Midland and Scottish Railway	LMS Jubilee Class	1934				Courtesy of The Bahamas Locomotive Society
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

Number	Original Operator	Class	Year Built	Livery	Usual Home	Arrived at Derby	Notes
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
37501 'Teesside Steelmaster'		Class 37	1961
		Class 37			West Coast Railways, Carnforth		Identity TBC
D821		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
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
55009 'Alycidon'		Class 55	1961
D9015 'Tulyar'		Class 55	1961
55019 'Royal Highland Fusilier'		Class 55	1961
57003		Class 57
57307 'Lady Penelope'		Class 57
58023		Class 58	1984
		Class 60					Courtesy of DC Rail and Cappagh Group, identity TBC
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

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	1966
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

Number	Original Operator	Class	Year Built	Livery	Usual Home	Arrived at Derby	Notes
51941 + 52064		Class 108
142013		Class 142	1985
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

Other exhibits

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
G-NLSE	Network Rail	Aerospatiale AS355F2 Ecureuil II