The Great Gathering Collection - Secure Your Set

On 3rd July the National Railway Museum in York celebrated the coming together of the last remaining six Class A4 locomotives under the aptly named title "The Great Gathering".

The six remaining A4 locomotives are "Mallard", a major resident at the NRM, "Dominion of Canada" on loan from the Canadian Railway Museum, "Dwight D. Eisenhower" on loan from the National Railroad Museum, USA, together with the privately owned "Union of South Africa", "Bittern" and "Sir Nigel Gresley".

All six locomotives returned to the NRM in October and can be seen one last time together at Locomotion, Shildon in February 2014.

The Hornby Great Gathering Collection includes each of the six locomotives in their respective liveries as seen at the National Railway Museum. When you order all six you will be entitled to claim a specially commissioned glass display cabinet so that the models can be seen as a complete collection.

We have a small number of complete Great Gathering sets available to buy direct from Hornby from tomorrow evening, Wednesday 18th December. Each set of six locomotives will be supplied with matching limited edition certificate numbers.

How to order

These Great Gathering sets will be sold by telephone only. The order line will open at 5:30pm GMT on Wednesday 18th December.

Telephone Order Line - 01843 233519

Please note that when you call this number you will be placed in a queue.  Calls will be answered in a first-come, first-served basis.  Telephone lines will not be opened until 5:30pm on Wednesday 18th December - please do not call before then or your call will not be connected.

Once all of the available sets are sold the telephone order line will be closed.

The cost of this set of six locomotives is £999.99.  Details on how to order The Great Gathering display cabinet will be included with each model - a £10 delivery charge will apply to cabinet orders.

There is a maximum of one set per customer.  These models are only available to UK callers.