"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:26:54 +0100, "JB"
wrote:

Personally, I tend to drive further to get to the motorway services
rather
than use sometimes decidedly average local offerings.

This never used to be the case for me, given how dreary they used to
be - however, I must say that I was impressed with the obviously
newly-built services at South Mimms yesterday - a bright, airy
building, spotlessly clean, lots of seats and a good range of
eateries. The railway would do well to look at[1] using the same kind
of design for their concourses.

[1] Manchester Piccadilly is in a similar style, and is very
impressive - only problem is the lack of seating.

Neil

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Actually I agree they used to be horrible (very occasionally I'll stumble
across an unreconstructed one). I still think they're expensive but I
realise the extra costs associated with running them.