{"id":366,"date":"2013-06-13T03:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=366"},"modified":"2013-06-13T03:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:45:01","slug":"restored-vehicles-revive-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Revives Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_365\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MacBraynes-Bus-Restored.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-365\" alt=\"A Restored David MacBrayne Coach at Howmore\" src=\"http:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MacBraynes-Bus-Restored-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MacBraynes-Bus-Restored-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MacBraynes-Bus-Restored-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MacBraynes-Bus-Restored.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Restored David MacBrayne Coach at Howmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Howmore is approximately half-way along South Uist and so was a useful location to build a bus depot.The stock of vehicles is regularly replaced as innovations in public transport are made, but for bus enthusiasts this is a haven. Some of the old <strong>David MacBrayne<\/strong> coaches have been restored and are maintained here. Their distinctive contours and colours revive memories of the fleet with which people identified travelling in the Highlands &amp; Islands until 1970-72. For more images of these vintage vehicles, go to <a title=\"The MacBrayne Circle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macbraynecircle.org\/\"><strong>The MacBrayne Circle<\/strong> <\/a>website and savour the enthusiasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howmore is approximately half-way along South Uist and so was a useful location to build a bus depot.The stock of vehicles is regularly replaced as innovations in public transport are made, but for bus enthusiasts this is a haven. Some of the old David MacBrayne coaches have been restored and are maintained here. Their distinctive <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/?p=366\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore-howmore-south-uist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatliff.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}