We present an experimental investigation of steady particle-driven gravity currents with Reynolds numbers in the range 500–1600, and with the ratio of the initial current speed to the fall speed of the particles, S = u 0 /u fall , in the range 5 < S < 160. We identify three regimes: (i) For S < 10, the particles settle close to the source at a velocity corresponding to their fall speed, consistent with the observation of sedimenting fronts in classical settling column experiments. (ii) In the range 10 < S < 40, a steady gravity current develops within the tank. The experiments show that the depth of the gravity current gradually decreases away from the source and dye added to the source liquid appears above the gravity current along its entire length, suggesting that there is a sedimentation front, so that the volume and momentum fluxes of the current gradually decrease with distance from the source. We find that as S increases, the descent speed of the sedimentation front decreases relative to the fall speed of the particles, and the run-out length of the gravity current increases. We note that the density of the interstitial fluid corresponds to the density of the ambient fluid, so that any reduction in buoyancy of the gravity current is attributed to the sedimentation of particles on the floor of the tank and we do not observe lofting of the interstitial fluid. (iii) For 40 < S < 160, the gravity currents reach the end of our experimental tank and we no longer observe a sedimentation front. For these experiments, it appears that the entrainment at the top of the current begins to match the sedimentation and so the current depth does not change significantly over the scale of the tank, but a larger scale experimental system would be needed to explore the full run-out behaviour for these larger values of S. For the intermediate case, 10 < S < 40, we develop a model for the conservation of volume, momentum and buoyancy fluxes in the current, accounting for the sedimentation front and the release of fluid at the top surface of the gravity current, and we compare this with our new experimental data.