A journey back in time to the ghost village on Salisbury Plain

Once a year, a fleet of Routemasters takes visitors through an army training area to a settlement that has lain empty since the second world warA line of London buses is crossing Salisbury Plain. It looks like someone has taken a red pen to the map. At the wheel of the leading bus is Peter Hendy, AKA Lord Hendy, AKA the boss of Network Rail. He’s a great man for old Routemasters, owns two, and is the driving force – literally – of this annual jaunt to the abandoned village of I