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Hmmm, "guy" is reported from 1375 in the sense of "a guide", from the Old French "guion". Even soccer appears from the OED to be English c. 1885. It gets really annoying at times; many so-called Americanisms are actually older forms of English English. Possibly the most famous one is "gotten", which appears in Wycliffe's Bible of 1382.

I have found 14 model railway wagons (though two are different makes of the same wagon) that appear to represent real wagons owned by Sheffield Companies. But did the real life wagons actually exists? Or where they made up rather like the Redgates Wagon made by Hornby (see Redgates thread). If each of the companies represented did exist, did they use railway wagons regardless of the model status? If the wagons were real, what date period are we talking for each? The companies: 1 Nunnery 2 Ketton Cement 3 General Refractories 4 Amoco 5 Longbottom & Co 6 Barkby Jolliffe 7 Sheffield & Ecclesall 8 Thomas Black 9 S Waterhouse 10 Jas Turner 11 Thomas W Ward 12 Chapman Fletcher & Cawood 13 Sheffield Chemical Co (Attercliffe) With the exception of Oil and Chemical and Lime Stone & Sand, most of the wagons are for coal. This maybe not what the companies trade was. Just the fuel they used.

Okay, so, I have tried not to count the ones you have already mentioned above, and this is what I have got so far: William Lawson, '2' (Hornby) Thomas Black '49' (Bachmann, triple set with next two wagons) Tinsley Park Collieries '2241' (as above) Newton Chambers '3751' (as above) Renishaw Iron '917' (Oxford Rail) Nunnery Colliery '1574' (limited edition, by Bachmann for Geoffrey Allison) Manchester & Sheffield Tar Works '19' (limited edition, by Bachmann for Rails) Sheffield & Ecclesall Co-op 'No 13' (limited edition, by Dapol for unknown) T.C.D. Ltd '171' (Mainline) I can also confirm that the Sheffield Chemical Co tank and the Longbottom & Co open wagon on your intial list are both limited editions (respectively for Rails and TMC/Modelzone) Now this list is only of wagons which are classified as the 'Sheffield' district - I have many others which cover Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, Chesterfield, Bolsover districts, amongst others! But I have been collecting these local wagons for around 23 years now, even when I lost interest I didn't sell them as I guessed the interest would come back haha.

Sheffield Victoria Train Station in the early 1980's when it was in a bad state

Here are a couple of then and now photo's of Chapeltown & Thorncliffe Railway station