A newly re-roofed extra-long Routemaster was the best-kept surprise at this year’s ninth operating day on Salisbury Plain, the biggest and most successful so far

Edinburgh Bus Tours RM281, newly rebuilt for weddings and other private hires, passing one of the buildings in Imber that are used for military combat practice.
KEITH McGILLIVRAY

The start of operations at Warminster station, with Sir Peter Hendy’s Euro6-repowered RM1005 parked beside a Wrightbus Customcare support van ready to provide any required assistance for New Routemasters running part of the service.
MARTIN CURTIS
This year’s Imberbus, the ninth annual operation of Routemasters and related London buses on scheduled services over normally inaccessible parts of Salisbury Plain, was the most successful so far.