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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.
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 ...
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]
Granada Motorway Services Ltd (now called Moto Motorway Services) was incorporated on 28 August 1962. [9] From January 2001 to September 2006 it was known as Compass Motorway Services. Other Granada services further up the M1 were Trowell in Nottinghamshire and Woolley Edge in West Yorkshire. By the end of the 1980s Granada had twenty motorway ...
Skelton Lake services (also known as Leeds Skelton Lake services) is a motorway service area operated by Extra, on the M1 motorway's junction 45 near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is south of the motorway junction, making it accessible from both carriageways and the A63 (linking to Leeds centre).
Services in the Cambridge area will be disrupted between Friday December 27 and Sunday January 5, affecting CrossCountry, Greater Anglia, Great Northern and Thameslink. Blocked traffic on the M25 ...
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.
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.