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	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

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

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

Number	Original Operator	Class	Year Built	Livery	Usual Home	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

Number	Class	Year Built	Livery	Usual Home	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

Number	Original Operator	Class	Year Built	Usual Home	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

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