{"id":67,"date":"2007-07-10T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T12:19:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-10T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T12:19:46","slug":"new-buses-in-winchester-take-the-piss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"New buses in Winchester take the piss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today 14 brand new Stagecoach buses were running round the City.  I even heard that our MD drove a couple of <a href=\"www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/winchroutes.pdf\" title=\"No 1\">No 1<\/a> loops and a television company (not sure if it was local BBC or ITV) were there to record it all.  These buses all run on a rather special additive &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; sheep&#8217;s piss!  Read about that  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/4082532.stm\" title=\"here.\">here.<\/a>  Which is why I guess each bus has a sheep related name (groan).   I trust that they never run short of the special additive when I&#8217;m on an AD day, I really don&#8217;t fancy chasing sheep over the Hampshire Downs and then getting them to pee into a bottle for me.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to get these not very good pictures this morning.  The first is in the yard at about 06:45 and the second is one of the buses I&#8217;m following out of Winchester railway station about an hour later.  I took the picture because of the smoke coming out from under the body of the bus.  Unfortunately, the smoke was light in colour and doesn&#8217;t come out in the photo.  The bus didn&#8217;t burst into flames so I guess it was just deposits burning off the exhaust system.  Or could a sheep have been barbequeing on the exhaust? :-)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/PICT0195.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/PICT0197.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today 14 brand new Stagecoach buses were running round the City. I even heard that our MD drove a couple of No 1 loops and a television company (not sure if it was local BBC or ITV) were there to record it all. These buses all run on a rather special additive &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; sheep&#8217;s piss! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}