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Motorway service areas, also known as service stations, are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel, rest, or take refreshments. Some also incorporate or adjoin hotels. Only 20 motorway services in the UK remain in the ownership of the Department for Transport and let on 50-year leases to private operating companies. [1]
Motorway service areas (MSA) also known as services or service stations, are rest areas in the UK and Ireland where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel/recharge, rest, eat and drink, shop, use the toilet or stay in an on-site overnight hotel. They are also a safe refuge for drivers who break down alongside leaving at a motorway junction.
A west-east motorway bypassing Medway, Sittingbourne and Faversham. Kent: 106,582 25.7 41.4 M20: A west-east motorway linking London to Folkestone and the Channel Tunnel. 120,348 50.6 81.4 M23: A north-south motorway linking London to Gatwick Airport and Crawley. Surrey, West Sussex: 110,574 15.9 25.6 M25: A ring road of London numbered ...
Stafford services is a pair of motorway service stations on the M6 motorway near Stone, Staffordshire, England.. It is unusual, in that the facilities on the northbound (opened 1996) and southbound (1999) sides of the motorway are operated by separate companies: Moto (formerly Granada) and Roadchef respectively.
Appearing on Top Gear: Extra Gear, comedian John Robins named Tebay northbound and southbound as two of his top three favourite motorway service stations. [9] Cumbria portal; Fellow comedian Frank Skinner proclaimed on his Absolute Radio show that “if there is a road to heaven, Tebay Services would be the service station on that road”.
Heston services is located between junctions 2 (Brentford Interchange, Lionel Road) and 3 (A312, Cranford Parkway Interchange) of the M4, near the suburbs of Heston and Cranford. It is one of only two motorway service stations within the M25; the other is London Gateway services (formerly Scratchwood services) on the M1, which opened in 1969.
The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a major road encircling most of Greater London. The 117-mile-long (188 km) motorway is one of the most important roads in the UK and one of the busiest. Margaret Thatcher opened the final section in 1986, making the M25 the longest ring road in Europe upon opening.
Wetherby Services is a motorway service area north of Wetherby on the A1(M) motorway in northern England. [1] It opened in September 2008, and the hotel (a 126-bed Days Inn hotel, the first major hotel in the north of the town) opened later. The service station is situated at junction 46 of the A1(M), the interchange between the A1(M) and the ...