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Secret Seven go to Southampton
In circumstances which would surely tax even the combined wits of our heroes Peter, Janet, Jack, Pam, Colin, Barbara and George, 66607 passes through Warminster with 7 HHAs in tow on a Southampton MCT to East Usk Yard working, this mirrored a corresponding working the other way 3 hours earlier and the turnaround at Southampton was less than 1 hour.
In striving to unravel the perplexing passage I came across someone who advised me that "the purpose seems to have been to pass the acoustic detector at Swaythling", in hindsight I should have asked a few follow-up questions rather than just accept that and say thank you. It was only later that I reflected on the possible meaning of this confounded riddle, deep enough to stagger the sleuthing septuplets themselves.
Acoustic Detector?, yes that does sounded like some possibly rail-related gadget, who-je-ma-flip or doohickey type thing but:
1. Did 'pass' mean to test the devious device to confirm it's operation (by driving past or over it with seven wagons?).
2. To literally just go past the device - why?, and why come all the way from South Wales to do that?
3. Or was my baffling benefactor just joking with me, suggesting a ludicrous time wasting and expense day trip to Hampshire and back organised by Freightliner for no reason?
Any help would be appreciated in cracking this confounding conundrum which has haunted my every waking hour for 5 years or more. MJ?
The acclaimed and prolific author Enid Blyton wrote scores of books, almost exclusively in the realm of children's fiction, selling over 600 million copies worldwide with many titles being translated into 90 languages.
Possibly best known as the creator of that colourful, seemingly permanently pubescent taxi driver and part time Slade frontman Noddy, Blyton wrote her first Secret Seven volume 'The Secret Seven' in 1949 and her fifteenth and final 'Fun for the Secret Seven' in 1963. By my calculations, in 1963 the eldest, Peter, would have been 29 and even the youngest, George, was probably 24 and the idea of four guys and three girls all still meeting in some garden shed somewhere with their secret codes, passwords and badges is frankly weird but leads one to guess what sort of "Fun" the Secret Seven were really enjoying.
In 1979 a half-hearted attempt by publisher Hamptonbrock Press to revive the series stalled after just two titles, 'Secret Seven join the Skinheads' and 'Secret Seven rumble with the the Inter City Firm' resulted in poor sales.
Secret Seven go to Southampton
In circumstances which would surely tax even the combined wits of our heroes Peter, Janet, Jack, Pam, Colin, Barbara and George, 66607 passes through Warminster with 7 HHAs in tow on a Southampton MCT to East Usk Yard working, this mirrored a corresponding working the other way 3 hours earlier and the turnaround at Southampton was less than 1 hour.
In striving to unravel the perplexing passage I came across someone who advised me that "the purpose seems to have been to pass the acoustic detector at Swaythling", in hindsight I should have asked a few follow-up questions rather than just accept that and say thank you. It was only later that I reflected on the possible meaning of this confounded riddle, deep enough to stagger the sleuthing septuplets themselves.
Acoustic Detector?, yes that does sounded like some possibly rail-related gadget, who-je-ma-flip or doohickey type thing but:
1. Did 'pass' mean to test the devious device to confirm it's operation (by driving past or over it with seven wagons?).
2. To literally just go past the device - why?, and why come all the way from South Wales to do that?
3. Or was my baffling benefactor just joking with me, suggesting a ludicrous time wasting and expense day trip to Hampshire and back organised by Freightliner for no reason?
Any help would be appreciated in cracking this confounding conundrum which has haunted my every waking hour for 5 years or more. MJ?
The acclaimed and prolific author Enid Blyton wrote scores of books, almost exclusively in the realm of children's fiction, selling over 600 million copies worldwide with many titles being translated into 90 languages.
Possibly best known as the creator of that colourful, seemingly permanently pubescent taxi driver and part time Slade frontman Noddy, Blyton wrote her first Secret Seven volume 'The Secret Seven' in 1949 and her fifteenth and final 'Fun for the Secret Seven' in 1963. By my calculations, in 1963 the eldest, Peter, would have been 29 and even the youngest, George, was probably 24 and the idea of four guys and three girls all still meeting in some garden shed somewhere with their secret codes, passwords and badges is frankly weird but leads one to guess what sort of "Fun" the Secret Seven were really enjoying.
In 1979 a half-hearted attempt by publisher Hamptonbrock Press to revive the series stalled after just two titles, 'Secret Seven join the Skinheads' and 'Secret Seven rumble with the the Inter City Firm' resulted in poor sales.