Newport Pagnell services

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

Newport Pagnell Services
Newport Pagnell Services is located in Buckinghamshire
Newport Pagnell Services
Newport Pagnell Services
Location in Buckinghamshire, England
Newport Pagnell Services is located in UK motorways
Newport Pagnell Services
Newport Pagnell Services
Location on the UK motorway network
Information
CountyBuckinghamshire
RoadM1
Coordinates:52.083066°N 0.748508°W / 52.083066; -0.748508
OperatorWelcome Break
Date opened2 November 1959[1]
WebsiteWelcome Break

History

Newport Pagnell Services was one of the first service stations to be opened in the UK, opening the same day as Watford Gap services on 2 November 1959. Newport Pagnell was the first to fully open for all traffic, opening on 15th August 1960, a month before Watford Gap.[1] Like the motorway, the site was designed by Sir Owen Williams. The services were opened by Forte, and were taken over by Welcome Break in 1988.

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]

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.[3]

Southbound entrance

References
  1. "The Original Five". Motorway Services Online. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  2. "David Fisher - Somerset Art - Commercial Works & Commissions". Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  3. BBC News, M1 coach crash driver is jailed.
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