Aside from the Skarloey Railway engines that work there, the Blue Mountain Quarry is a home to a large selection of road vehicles.
Shovel Excavators
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Several shovel excavators work at the Blue Mountain Quarry. Aside from quarry work, they can also be used in construction.
Technical Details
Basis
The shovel excavators are based on 1936 Smith 12-face shovel excavators. These machines were built at Smith's plant at Rodley Crane Works in Leeds. One example of this type of shovel is preserved at the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, Wales, and is currently painted in a similar livery to that used by the Blue Mountain Quarry shovel excavators[1]
Livery
The shovels are painted blue and orange with the quarry logo on their sides.
Appearances
Trivia
- A shovel was later retextured in a black, orange, and cream livery as an Outback mining excavator for the twenty-second series episode Cyclone Thomas.
Dump Trucks
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A few dump trucks work at the Blue Mountain Quarry. They haul stones and help clear waste from building sites. They are painted orange and blue and have the quarry logo on their sides.
Some dump trucks were also seen at Anopha Quarry and the Harwick Branch Line.
Technical Details
Basis
These trucks are based on dump trucks manufactured by the International Harvester Company.
Appearances
Audio Files
Horn
First used | Last used | Sound Effect |
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Blue Mountain Mystery | Blue Mountain Mystery |
Trivia
- A dump truck's wheels were later reused for Dexter as his "monster truck wheels" in the fantasy sequence for the twenty-second series episode, School of Duck.
- A dump truck was later retextured in two different liveries to represent Italian dump trucks in the twenty-third series episode, All Tracks Lead to Rome. One being an aqua and black livery with red hubcaps and the other purple and brown.
8-Wheel Tanker Lorries
A few tanker lorries work at the Blue Mountain Quarry. These bring fuel for the machines that work at the quarry. They are painted orange and blue and bear the quarry logo on both their cabs and their tankers.
Technical Details
Basis
It is based on AEC Mammoth Major 8-wheeler tanker lorries.
Appearances
4-Wheel Tanker Lorries
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A few tanker lorries work at the Blue Mountain Quarry. These bring fuel for the machines that work at the quarry. They are painted orange and blue and bear the quarry logo on both their cabs and their tankers.
Technical Details
Basis
This lorry reuses the mesh from the soft-sided lorries, which are based on designs by Austin, Dodge and Leyland from the 1940s and 1950s.
Appearances
Soft-Side Lorries
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A few soft-side lorries work at the Blue Mountain Quarry. They are just like the normal Soft-sided Lorries, except they are coloured blue and orange and carry the Blue Mountain Quarry logo on their sides.
Technical Details
Basis
The soft-side lorries are based on designs by Austin, Dodge and Leyland from the 1940s and 1950s.
Livery
Appearances
JCB 1 Grave Digger
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A few bulldozers work at the Blue Mountain Quarry. They usually work at the spot where the Skarloey Railway engines tip their loads of slate ready for it to go into the crusher. It is the job of the bulldozers to push the slate from the drop-off point into the crusher. Like the other vehicles, they are painted blue and orange and carry the quarry logo on their sides.
One of the bulldozer's number plates is "GLV 0914".
Technical Details
Basis
The bulldozer is based on the JCB 1 Grave Digger (minus the backhoe).
Appearances
Trivia
- A plain yellow bulldozer appeared in the sixteenth series episode, Race to the Rescue.
ERF 6-Wheeler Lorries
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A few ERF 6-Wheeler Lorries work at the Blue Mountain Quarry.
Technical Details
Basis
They are based on ERF 6-wheeler Lorries.
Appearances
Other Vehicles
A blue ZIS-5 appeared in the 2012 book, Risky Rails!. A yellow and blue Scania Dump Truck and Mack Dump Truck appeared in the Golden Books illustrated by Tommy Stubbs.
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