Newport Pagnell services

Newport Pagnell Services
Newport Pagnell services (Buckinghamshire)
Information
County: Buckinghamshire
Road: M1
Coordinates: 52°04′59″N 0°44′55″W / 52.083066°N 0.748508°W / 52.083066; -0.748508Coordinates: 52°04′59″N 0°44′55″W / 52.083066°N 0.748508°W / 52.083066; -0.748508
Operator: Welcome Break
Date opened: 26 November 1959[1]
Website: Welcome Break

Newport Pagnell Services is a motorway service station between junctions 14 and 15 of the M1 motorway near Newport Pagnell and Milton Keynes in north Buckinghamshire. It is owned and operated by Welcome Break.

History

Newport Pagnell Services were the second service station to be opened in the UK, but as the Watford Gap services were originally only for trucks, Newport Pagnell was the first to open for all traffic. It opened on 26 November 1959, the birthday of Charles Forte, Baron Forte.[1] Like the motorway, the site was designed by Sir Owen Williams.

The service station is one of fourteen for which large murals were commissioned from artist David Fisher in the 1990s, designed to reflect the local area and history.[2]

Facilities[3]

Hotels

Restaurants

Shops

Fuel

Other

In the news

On 3 September 2007, a National Express coach from Birmingham to Luton airport and Stansted airport (making an unscheduled stop) failed to make a turn on the approach road and overturned. A number of people including the driver were seriously injured. The driver was subsequently convicted of drink driving and dangerous driving.[4]

Southbound entrance

References

  1. 1 2 Motorway Services Trivia - Chronology - Accessed 16 February 2009
  2. ↑ http://www.davidfisherartist.co.uk/achievements.html
  3. ↑ "Welcome Break - Service Station - Newport Pagnell". Welcome Break. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  4. ↑ BBC News, M1 coach crash driver is jailed.
Next southbound:
Toddington		 Motorway service stations on the
M1 motorway 		Next northbound:
Northampton
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