 W. Awdry to include them in The Railway Series of children's books as Bill and Ben.The first ships used Joseph Treffry’s artificial harbour at Par on the south coast of Cornwall in 1833.It was fully operational by 1840 when it was linked to his inland mines and quarries by a canal up the valley to Ponts Mill, where it connected with inclined tramways to Treffry’s copper mines and granite quarries.