Arlesdale Hoppers

The Arlesdale Railway owns several hopper wagons which are used for transporting ballast. These bogie wagons are taken up to the ballast mines by the miniature engines, loaded up, and brought back down to Arlesburgh West, where they are then placed on the chute. The loads drop out from the bottom of the trucks into the standard gauge trucks below, and the North Western Railway takes the ballast to their own railway.

Basis
The hoppers are based on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's ballast hoppers. Their design is different in both The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends; the trucks in the books are metal and are closer to their real-life counterparts, while the television series trucks are slightly shorter, made of wood and are fitted with buffers and chain couplings.

Livery
The hoppers are painted brown with "ARLESDALE" painted on both sides in white.

Appearances
The Railway Series=


 * Small Railway Engines - Ballast


 * -|Thomas & Friends=


 * Season 20 - The Way She Does it, Tit for Tat, Mike's Whistle, and Useful Railway

Specials
 * 2015 - Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
 * 2016 - The Great Race