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Lancaster (Forton) services is a motorway service station, between junctions 32 and 33 of the M6 motorway in England. The nearest city is Lancaster , about 7 miles (11 km) to the north. The site is operated by Moto .
The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom. It is located entirely within England, running for just over 230 miles (370 km) from the Midlands to the border with Scotland. It begins at Junction 19 of the M1 and the western end of the A14 at the Catthorpe Interchange , near Rugby before heading north-west.
The former route of the A683 through Lancaster has been redesignated the A589. Archaeological work was undertaken in 2014 for the Heysham to M6 Link project, now the Bay Gateway. It was a large-scale civil-engineering project mainly funded by the Department For Transport, which was monitored by the former Lancashire County Archaeological Service.
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This ran from the current M6 junction 29 to the M55 junction 1. It was built as a two-lane route. In 1965 the M6 was extended north from what is the current day junction 32 to meet the Lancaster Bypass, [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] and the M6 junction was rebuilt to its current design to connect the A6 at the now M55 junction 1. [ 2 ]
The M6 here passes through an environmentally sensitive area, and the services were sited in this location to fit in with the surrounding local area and provide a view away from the motorway. A corresponding southbound services, Killington Lake Services, was constructed at the same time, opening the previous month. [citation needed]
The Preston Bypass was the United Kingdom's first motorway, opened in 1958.It was designed and engineered by Lancashire County Council surveyor James Drake as part of a larger initiative to create a north-south motorway network that would later form part of the M6 motorway.
The A6 Preston to Lancaster road runs north–south through the centre of the village, and junction 33 of the M6 is nearby. A major railway from Preston to Lancaster passes on a viaduct over the village. The village once had its own station (Galgate railway station) but it closed in 1939 and now the nearest station is Lancaster.