HOW TO FIND A MOTORWAY STATION WHERE SIS AND I COULD SWAP KIDS OVER?D

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need to find a service station that can be accessed from north and south bound of M1.any ideas where i could look?

on a map?

I think most of them have bridges between the 2 sides...where would be roughly midway between you?

where abouts on the M1?

Leicester Forest East. Why DO YOU ASK?

FunnysIn, I was just going to say the same!

snap! Mind you the M1 is VERY long..........I got a taxi to LFE on my hen night at 6am for chocolate cake.......sigh............12 years ago....

im comming south from london and sis north from junction 31,need somewhere approx half way so i can pick her kids up.sorry for being vague.

Watford Gap services, between J16 and J17. They are joined by a footbridge (here

LFE is the one where we swap kids and Granny. It is a further from london than Jct 31 though.

Otherwise, if you want to pick one that is equidistant,one of you could easily leave at the jct further on, go round the roundabout and come back to the service st, IYSWIM.

thanks so much,will look into it

LFE is near junction 20 or 21 and so nearer to London

Junction 15 (or 15A) at Northampton. There are services on both sides of the motorway and you can drive over to the other side so if you are swapping kids over with bags etc it is a lot easier as you can park next to each other. Just remember to agree if you are swapping North bound or South bound! Very easy for both parties to get back on the way they need to go.

It is a popular place - we have swapped there before and seen others doing the same!

great,ive just thought i have a cot to hand over so 15 would b great.thanks

Surely London to JCT 21 is further than Jct 21 to 31 (i.e. 21 junctions versus 10 junctions - ??? Or have I missed something?

possibly, but not necessarily, 3lf - distances between junctions are far from equal - urban junctions can be as little as 1 mile apart, rural ones 10 miles or more!

will have to get it about 85 miles each as sis will winge to everyone she went further!

I misunderstood 3LF. I understood you to mean J21 is further from London than J31. I now see you mean that they (from London) would have to travel further. Although as Ponders says, tis not nec the case!

watford gap is 99.5 miles from me, i think i might take the extra 14.5 miles myself.

I second Poogles - Jct 15a is one of the few where you can both drive your car to the same carpark and then turn round and go back the way you came. Most of the others will mean you ahve to drive on in the wrong direction to get to the next exit to turn round