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Do battle across Britain's best service stations in the Motorway Service Stations Trumps Card Game, the most anticipated event in motoring since the electric sunroof. Race your opponents using 5 categories to steal every station in the game. On top of the list was Gloucester services on the M5, which received four stars out of five for each category and a customer score of 86 per cent.

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If you follow the M3 out of London, somewhere around Basingstoke it will start to feel like a totally different road. That's because for many years the M3 ended at J8, and this is key to its service station planning. On the Monday morning when I drop in, there’s another type of visitor in evidence: a throng of harried-looking parents dropping toddlers off with their grandparents on a detour from the morning commute. Once inside, the reason becomes clear: there’s a brand new and very large soft play set up in one corner. And, unlike the norovirus-inducing dirt-traps in most towns, it’s sparklingly clean and free to use. Everyone’s got their favourite motorway service area, so we travelled the length and breadth of the UK and included the best and worst in this game. Trumps cards have never had the motorway service station treatment before… And they’re never likely to again!The motorway's public inquiry was strongly against building the service area, but it was considered too important to drop and revised layouts were analysed. The exact position of the north-eastbound service area still hadn't been chosen. One option would have had the north-eastbound service area further west, by Longcross Studios, where land was being sold at the time. We don't know why the MOT numbering was so erratic on the M3. One theory is that Kempshott's number was an error, and it should have been SA67 - but there's no evidence to support that. In fact, the only other service stations that can hold a candle to Gloucester are run by the same family-run firm, Westmorland, with its three service stations taking the top three spots in our league table. Opened in 1959, poor old Toddington Northbound has seen better days. Its lino comes trodden with a pattern of dirty footprints and there’s a persistent smell of stale fast food in the air. This, like many other service stops, is not a place to linger. It’s what Alan Partridge’s creators must have had in mind when they moved him into a fictional motorway hotel (the Linton Travel Tavern) as his career crashed spectacularly.

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Are your colleagues still coming up to your desk and asking you to do things for them, even though you told them you’re completely swamped with work? Are they flooding your inbox with reminders? In the 1960s, the Ministry of Transport were working on a three stop plan for service stations on the M3 that was about to begin construction. The County Surveyors Of Hampshire's joint report recommended using Shepperton, Windlesham and Andwell, but the Ministry didn't like the spacing of those and instead went with: The theory at the time was that service areas close to London would make the most money. With its high traffic levels and proximity to the M25, Trumps Green is still a desirable location today. Forecasts in the 1970s said this was going to be the most profitable service station in the country. So why wasn't it built?In 1995, the Highways Agency confirmed that they still owned the land at Trumps Green south-westbound, but said that it was "not in use". There had been a plan to use some of it to widen the M3, but this didn't happen. More recent maps show the national highway authority owning a large swathe of land by the north-eastbound side, but not south-westbound.

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Gloucester, on the other hand, is 'as far from a typical motorway stop as you can imagine'. From the 'wonderful design' of the building and cleanliness of the facilities, to the restaurant and farm shop selling 'delicious' food, it's no wonder it's in 'a different league to most service stations'.The location of the Bridgwater and Gloucester services means both are often used by tourists heading to and from Cornwall and Devon for their holidays. The findings were based on around 5,600 experiences by 2,700 consumers at 68 motorway service areas. Roadchef runs three of the UK's 10 worst services, including Watford Gap on the M1 (junctions 16-17, 43%) and Sandbach on the M6 (junctions 16-17, 42%), both of which earned a dismal one star for their range of facilities. The notion of a future motorway service area at Kempshott continued to be part of the Hampshire Local Plan, until the Highways Agency requested it be removed in March 1995. They confirmed that they still owned the land, but said that it was "not in use". By this stage, building new service areas was no longer their responsibility.