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Donington Park is a motorway service station owned by Moto, near Kegworth village in the English East Midlands.It is accessed from the M1 motorway by junctions 23a (from the south) and 24 (from the north), and is part of the complex of junctions involving the A42, A453, A50 and A6 roads.
These share the defining properties of motorway service areas, being named service areas operated by a single company with a range of facilities including food & drink providers, toilet facilities and vehicle servicing facilities. Such service areas are rare on most A-roads, where basic filling stations with a single shop are more common.
Later the Donington Park services were added in July 1999. It runs parallel to the motorway to M1 junction 24, to link to the motorway and the A50 road. On the opposite side of the M1 from Molehill Farm, on 8 January 1989, the Kegworth air disaster took place. There is a right turn (Ashby Road) for Kegworth, which is the continuation of the ...
The Donington Circuit layout in 1937. Donington Park is a motorsport circuit located near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.The circuit business is now owned by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation, and the surrounding Donington Park Estate, still owned by the Wheatcroft family, is currently under lease by MotorSport Vision until 2038. [1]
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.
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 ...
Road merges onto M1 continuing towards Nottingham: M1 J23A Services: Start of road: East Midlands, Nottingham , Derby (A6) A453 Donington Park services: No access (on-slip only) Castle Donington A453: J14 No access (on-slip only) Ashby, Coalville, Leicester A511, Loughborough A512: J13 Ashby, Burton, Coalville A511: Snarestone B4116, Ashby: J12 ...
Newport Pagnell Services was the one of the first two service stations to be opened in the UK, when both it and Watford Gap opened for fuel (only) on 2 November 1959. [citation needed] It was the first to open catering facilities: the northbound café opened on Monday 15 August 1960, [11] and the southbound restaurant followed on 17 September 1960.