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Operators

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Over time service area operators have completely changed. To this day, the market is dominated by Moto, Welcome Break and RoadChef, but only a few years ago Moto was known as Granada, and RoadChef have recently eaten two of the oldest service station operators.

Motorway Services Online is trying to get as much information and photos as possible on the operators, both past and present. Below is what we have so far. Operators marked in italics are no more.

For a quick introduction to the history of the operators and an explanation of the tier system used below, see the Brief History.

Moto logo

Moto

Granada > Moto
First
Rank > Pavilion
Taverna

Welcome Break logo

Welcome Break

Welcome Break
Forte > Trusthouse Forte
Ross

RoadChef logo

RoadChef

RoadChef
Blue Boar

Extra logo

Others

Extra
Blue Star
Kenning Motor Group
Mobil

Cairn Lodge logo

The Little 'Uns

These operators only own/owned one site, so their story is explained on the appropriate page in the Services List.

BP - Heart of Scotland
Cairn Lodge - Happendon
Stop 24 - Folkestone
Westmorland - Tebay
Mecca Leisure - Trowell
Poplar 2000 - Lymm
Take a Break - Strensham


With thanks to SABREOpen link in a new window's '686Carl' for the information used on this page. Cairn Lodge photo taken by Darrin Antrobus, it's used under this Creative CommonsOpen link in a new window licence.