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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

Many 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 Cyclone Thomas.

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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 and produced by Mack Trucks and the International Harvester Company.

Appearances

Audio Files

Horn

First used Last used Sound Effect
Blue Mountain Mystery Blue Mountain Mystery

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8-Wheel Tanker Lorry

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.

Appearance


4-Wheel Tanker Lorry

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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.

Appearance

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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

Appearance

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Bulldozers

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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).

Appearance

Trivia

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ERF 6-wheeler Lorry

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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.

Appearance

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Other Vehicles

A blue Old Lorry appears in the 2012 book, Risky Rails!. A yellow and blue Scania Dump Truck appears in the Golden Books illustrated by Tommy Stubbs.

References


Non-rail vehicles

* RWS only | ** T&F only | *** Other Media only
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