(08 Sep 2013, 7:34 pm)Andreos1 wrote Washington - Oxclose - Blackfell - Springwell - Cotemede - Meresyde - Colegate - Whealcroft - QE Hosp - Beacon Lough - Kells Lane - Beaconsfield Road - Belle Vue Bank - old 638 route to terminus (Ryton or Crawcrook).
Can't see the need for it to go via Wrekenton or Harlow Green due to the increase in services in those areas.
If it did go to Wrekenton it would reinstate a link between Wrekenton and the section of Durham Road between Harlow Green Bridge and Low Fell Library, which hasn't been there ever since the 27A was withdrawn.
Whether that link is "vital" I don't know but it did exist for donkey's years under the 27A, and before that on the 25.