The GM Buses Routemasters normally stuck to Wilmslow Road, but the BBC hired RM2202 for a series of outside broadcasts around the region for Northwest Tonight. This date was chosen to visit Saddleworth as it was Whit Friday and there was plenty to see, not least the Brass Band contests. For the day the bus was parked in the car park of the King Bill in Greenfield. Just to confuse, although it was RM2202 in the GM Buses fleet, it had been RM1776 in London and became that again when it returned to the capital. It worked there on heritage route 9 until 2014 but has since been sold to Henry Cooper Coaches of Cramlington.