Motorway service area Motorway service area Motorway service areas in the United Kingdom, also known as 'service stations' or 'services', are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel/recharge, rest, eat and drink, shop or stay in an on-site overnight hotel. The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies: Moto, Welcome Break and Roadchef. Smaller operators include Extra, Westmorland and EuroGarages. The first service area in the UK was at Watford Gap on the M1, which opened with the motorway on 2 November 1959. As more service stations opened, the number of operating companies
Sheb Wooley Texas, moving to Hollywood, where Wooley hoped to establish himself as an actor or singer in films or in the new, rapidly expanding medium of television. Wooley appeared in dozens of Western films from the 1950s through 1990s. In 1950, he appeared in "Rocky Mountain" with such veteran actors as Errol Flynn and Slim Pickens. In 1952 he played the role of the outlaw Ben Miller in "High Noon". In 1954, he played outlaw Jim Younger in the syndicated Western series "Stories of the Century." Wooley appeared many times in the syndicated Western series "The Range Rider", starring Jock Mahoney