(10 Sep 2014, 8:56 pm)aureolin wrote M2A serves both stops at Barmston. Loops the usual M3 stop then goes back and through the buslink as the M2 would. M3A runs once a day, but after the Galleries does Bidding, Fatfield, Harraton, rickleton, Birtley, then Chester Le Street.
For as long as I remember, there has been a service that has done that run.
Years ago, it was an all day service like the 777. Then more recently, a morning only run on the x6 (I think?).