Not all gallery pages currently include an image of the plot generated by their code. All items still have their respective images on the main gallery page. I haven't found any examples where only a subset of a page's images are missing.
Examples:
The new Read The Docs style documentation has resolved this issue.
See https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generated/gallery/index.html. Note this is the latest, this points to master. When there is a release for Iris there will also be a stable release and a tagged release too.
I think we can close this issue now?
I can confirm that this appears to be solved, thanks @tkknight!