In 2009, a group of bus industry professionals achieved a long standing ambition to run a vintage bus service from Warminster in Wiltshire, to the abandoned village of Imber on the Salisbury Plain. It proved to be so popular that it has now become an annual charity event, with most journeys continuing across the Plain to parts of Wiltshire rarely seen by ordinary public transport users.

There are only a few days each year on which the road through Imber is open to the public and we are only able to run Imberbus on one of those dates. Therefore in 2026 the Imberbus service will only run on

Saturday 15th August 2026

when several London Transport Routemaster buses (plus a few newer ones) will be the only vehicles allowed to travel through to Imber village and on to other parts of Salisbury Plain.

As in previous years, these buses will start from outside Warminster Rail Station and will operate as an ordinary bus service (not a tour), so there is no need nor any on-line facility for passengers to reserve seats or book tickets in advance – just turned up on the day and pay the conductor on the bus or purchase a ticket from the ticket desk outside the station or from one of our roving ticket sellers.

Local residents will also be able to to travel to Imber from Chitterne, Tilshead and the Lavingtons by paying the conductor in cash on the bus.

Provisional information on what we have planned so far for this year’s event is now available on our Imberbus 2026 web page, but we may need to add to this during the summer, so please be sure to check it again during August. We will also email updates to the people that have subscribed to our mailing list, so if you would like to receive these, please add your name to our mailing list by inserting your email address into box below and clicking the “Subscribe” button.

You can also find out more information about Imber and Imberbus by checking out the other pages on our website, using the black menu bar at the top of this page. Then after doing that, if you need to contact us for more information, please fill in the contact form on the right hand side of this page or visit our contact page.