Bagnall 0-4-0ST "Alfred" and "Judy"

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. The canal was supplemented by a horse-drawn tramway to Ponts Mill in 1855, while a separate tramway incline served the Par Consols mine on the hill behind the harbour. In 1860, a connection was made to the recently opened Cornwall Railway which was carried on a viaduct and embankment between the harbour and mine. The mine closed in 1869 and the main tramway was converted to locomotive haulage as the Cornwall Minerals Railway in 1874, but wagons continued to be moved by horses within the harbour complex. Several years later a branch line was taken through an bridge beneath the Cornish Main Line to serve new china clay processing works. As well as the very low bridge, this line had a tight radius curve; these two restrictions had to be accounted for when buying locomotives to work at the harbour. The first steam locomotive to be put to use by the Treffry Estates was a small four-wheeled vertical boiler locomotive built by Sara and Burgess in Penryn in 1912 that arrived at Par the following year. This was supplemented by a more conventional 0-4-0ST in 1916 named Punch, a second hand Manning Wardle engine. The Sara locomotive was taken out of service in 1927 and was replaced by a Sentinel engine known as Toby. This was another four-wheeled vertical boiler locomotive, but of a much more modern design than the one it replaced. In 1932, Punch was rebuilt by the harbour staff using the Sara boiler but it only operated in this form for five years. At around this time they created another locomotive at Par using the parts from two steam cranes that had been operating around the harbour. This line is still in use but is now worked by DB Schenker locomotives from St Blazey. ==Judy==

in 2015 Works number 2572, built 1937. Bagnall designed a locomotive that was only high by dropping the cab floor down between the main frames. long over headstocks and wide, Judy's wheels were just apart, allowing it to negotiate the sharp curve by Par Moors drier. The outside cylinders meant it could be serviced without using an inspection pit, and Bagnall–Price valve gear was fitted. It cost £1,200 and weighed on delivery. ==Alfred==

Works number 3058, built 1953. Although essentially the same design, the second Bagnall locomotive had several small differences. These included flat handrail mountings instead of turned fittings, and a flush saddle tank without the prominent rivets used on Judy. It also weighed more. August 2002 saw it at St Blazey depot of an open day and it was steamed down the branch to Par harbour, the first time in 25 years. ==Fictional counterparts==

The Reverend Wilbert Awdry visited the Port of Par in 1966 and he soon wrote Main Line Engines, the 21st volume of The Railway Series of children's books. This book featured two diminutive low-cab 0-4-0STs named Bill and Ben. These locomotive characters have also appeared in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends television series based on the books. ==References==