Category: Great Service Stations Of The Nation

The relationship between Boston United and motorway service stations is a long and complicated one. A bit like Kevin Keegan’s relationship with lay-bys and baseball bats, a scurrilous mischief-maker might say. Here are some of the best we’ve encountered….

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6 Nov 201024 May 2022TrailOfDebt

Quite Remarkable Service Stations of the Nation: Tebay

One of the great joys of driving up the M6 – apart from not being crushed and burnt to death by drunk footballers – is that for long stretches the motorway runs parallel to the West Coast Main Line, the bendy version of the East Coast Main Line.

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17 Jun 201015 Nov 2019TrailOfDebt

Quite Remarkable Service Stations of the Nation: Keele

Think about the following question very carefully: when was the last time you went to Stoke-on-sodding-Trent? More specifically, when was the last time you went to Stoke-on-sodding-Trent WITHOUT STOPPING YOUR CAR?

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15 Feb 200924 May 2022TrailOfDebt

Quite Remarkable Service Stations of the Nation: Leicester Forest East

Venture to Leicester’s tenuous outskirts and you will encounter the same bleak suburban wasteland you’ll find in every city: low density industrial units replete with vast tracts of asphalt car-parks, massive windswept road junctions, huge council safari parks patrolled by armed feral vermin and flat-pack pubs serving tasteless gruel marketed as ‘good, honest food’.