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Name Changes
Having viewed Robertdavey6 photo taken on Northampton Services on the M1. Set me thinking how many Motorway Services have under gone a name change.
Rothersthorpe to Northampton Anderton to Bolton (I think, not been to Gods Country for a while) Can't remember the original name but the last one south bound on M1 changed to London Gateway. Anybody know of any more? Ian
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Evening Ian, there is the old Forton services on the M6 which is now called Lancaster services. Hope you are well Ian, all the best.
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Scratchwood services.
Looks like the southbound entrance is still very tight! http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.6357861...17&l=0&m=h&v=2 Quote:
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How one name was changed
http://archive.thisislancashire.co.u.../5/533148.html Forton http://motorwayservicesonline.co.uk/services/lancaster/ Former brands http://motorwayservicesonline.co.uk/brands/former/ Never came to be http://motorwayservicesonline.co.uk/unbuilt/paper/ |
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name change
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Last edited by grandad; 8th February 2009 at 22:23. Reason: mistake |
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Farthing Corner is now Medway.
Hilton Park is, I think, Birmingham North I presume the idea is to more "instinctively" locate them for the general motorists. Bloody confusing for the older drivers who still use the old names. I refer to Rothersthorpe and one driver (31ish) doesn't know where I mean. |
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"Original name (Farthing Corner) is derived like most MSA from the nearest village, the name change to Medway, represents the M2's role as the Medway towns by-pass "
So we lose the names that suggest a rural location and replace them with faceless route locations . . . |
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