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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] The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies: Moto , Welcome Break and Roadchef and a developing chain of stations being constructed by Extra .
London Gateway services is the southernmost motorway service station on the M1 motorway – between Junctions 2 and 4 – north of London, England. [ citation needed ] It is between Arkley and Edgware on the west side of the road, has a hotel, and, unusually, has an early give way on its northern approach.
There had been plans before the Second World War for a motorway network in the United Kingdom. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu formed a company to build a 'motorway-like road' from London to Birmingham in 1923, [4] but it was a further 26 years before the Special Roads Act 1949 was passed, which allowed for the construction of roads limited to specific vehicle classifications, and in the 1950s, the ...
Woolley Edge services is a motorway service station on the M1 motorway within the borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies between junctions 38 and 39 close to West Bretton and west of the village of Woolley .
Northampton services are located at junction 15A of the M1 at a junction with the A43, because of the way the service area has evolved, it is possible to reach and exit the services without negotiating the main junction, but uniquely it is also possible to access the service area on the opposite carriageway legally.
Motorway service stations on the M1 motorway in England. Pages in category "M1 motorway service stations" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Woodall services is a motorway service station on the M1 motorway in Rotherham close to Sheffield in England. It lies between junctions 30 and 31. It lies between junctions 30 and 31. It was opened in 1968 by Trust House Forte but was renamed Welcome Break after the takeover of the company.
Tibshelf services, opened in 1999, [citation needed] is a motorway service area operated by Roadchef between junctions 28 and 29 of the M1 motorway in Derbyshire, England.The site is near Tibshelf Ponds and the Five Pits Trail and lies around 2 ⁄ 3 mile (1.1 km) south-east of the village of Tibshelf, but the north-bound site is closer to the village of Newton. [1]