The greatest gathering: a spectacle for the ages

It’s been billed as ‘The Glastonbury of Railways’ and the largest collection of historic and contemporary railway vehicles ever assembled. But how did it originate, and what was involved in putting it together? GARY ESSEX looks at the background and logistics of holding The Greatest Gathering.

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

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RICHARD WILCOCK joins the thousands at Alstom’s Derby Litchurch Lane facility to celebrate 200 years of railway history

Railway 200 has been quite the event for shining a light on the role that railways have played in shaping Britain since 1825. Given that the subject is so vast, we first looked at this in our May edit

T H E LONG-ANTICIPATED line-up of an LNER ...