Tickets for The Greatest Gathering are beginning to sell out ahead of the three day event in August.

Tickets for the Saturday of the event have now fully sold out! Meaning that no more tickets will be available for the Derby open day.

This includes 3-day tickets, which are no longer available.

The Greatest Gathering is set to take place this August to celebrate 200 years of passenger railways.

The event will take place at Alstom‘s Derby Litchurch Lane Works between the 1st and 3rd August.

The first locomotives confirmed to attend are (Alstom have also noted that examples from the same class may substitute):

• LNER A4 No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley – courtesy of the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust and Locomotive Services Group
• SR Merchant Navy No. 35018 British India Line – courtesy of West Coast Railways Co
• BR Class 37 No. 37800 Cassiopeia – courtesy of Rail Operations Group
• Class 50 No. 50049 Defiance – courtesy of the Class 50 Alliance
• Class 57 No. 57307 Lady Penelope – courtesy of Direct Rail Services
• Class 66 No. 66315 – courtesy of GB Railfreight
• Class 69 No. 69004 – courtesy of GB Railfreight
• Class 507001 – courtesy of the Class 507 Preservation Society
• Class 390016 (renumbered 390200) – courtesy of Avanti West Coast
• Class 701 No. 701003 – courtesy of South Western Railway
• Class 720 No. 720503 – courtesy of Greater Anglia
• LMS 6P No. 46115 Scots Guardsman – courtesy of West Coast Railways Co.
• Class 60 and JNA-T Wagon – courtesy of DCRail and Cappagh Group

You can see our video from the official press launch below: