All The Motorway Service Stations Episode 4

All The Motorway Service Stations Episode 4 - Wales Special

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2 жыл бұрын

#motorway #servicestations #Wales
OK now things get interesting... My favourite service station, Severn View (Aust) Firstly, there's a rather jolly bridge to look at and secondly this particular service station has many reminders of how things were "Back in the day" so if you know where to look....
Luckily we did, so join us as we explore Severn View before heading over the iconic bridge to the wonderful Wales and explore all of what the Welsh service stations have to offer.
We are embarking on a journey across the UK to visit all 93* motorway service stations.
*It turns out there are 94.
In this episode, we'll be stopping at;
Severn View - M48
Magor - M4
Cardiff Gate - M4
Cardiff West - M4
Sarn Park - M4
Swansea West - M4
Pont Abraham - M4
Give our twitter a follow -- @JonShenanigans We'll be sure to update it as we go along.
Join us as we take in the various sights and sounds of the motorway service station.

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@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

Get it on the twitter action - @JonShenanigans and send us your suggestions or things to find at the service stations!

@jca111 Жыл бұрын

Interesting fact: The Severn Bridge does not land in Wales. It goes from England to England. It's the Wye Bridge which takes you from England to Wales. It's all part of the same complex of 4 bridges tho. (Aust Viaduct, Severn Bridge, Beachley Viaduct & Wye Bridge)

@TheThejpmshow Жыл бұрын

Very appropriate as it asks the question, Wye did we go into Wales?

@benjones1917 Жыл бұрын

Until recently I hadn't been to Severn View services since I was very young and I could have sworn it used to be bigger - turns out that's because it DID used to be bigger! Thanks for confirming I'm not losing my mind. Also, fun fact about Pont Abraham, just behind where you were filming outside is where my mum accidentally shut my fingers in the door of my grandads Austin Princess, breaking one them, in about 1990. That finger is still crooked to this day. Happy memories.

@paarker Жыл бұрын

You should sue her. I reckon she did it on purpose.

@TheDailyRant2023 Жыл бұрын

Richie Edwards was the guitarist for The Manics, not the bassist. Nicky Wire, the bassist, is alive and well!

@musicoflloyd Жыл бұрын

Richie Edwards was the bassist in the Darkness. Richey Edwards was the guitarist in Manic Street Preachers 😉

@paarker Жыл бұрын

You’ve both lost me. Anyway, Richie Valens was a guitarist and died in a plane crash.

@DexDrives Жыл бұрын

Not bass player, lyricist and rhythm guitarist, bass player Nicky Wire is very much alive. Massive Manics fan seen them 110 times in 25 years.

@EngineerLewis Жыл бұрын

Magor services - said May-gor services is local to my office and yet I have never visited it! Thanks for the video tour!

@dhdove Жыл бұрын

Severn View (Aust pronounced Ost) is so disappointing nowadays compared to its former glory, not much more than a glorified shed. The building was very imposing for a service station and the views second to none from the restaurant. It’s well worth the walk up to the top to take in the view as you found. We were bussed down the the bridge from primary school in Olveston for the opening ceremony by the Queen and sat on the then open grassy embankments waving our Union Jacks! Life was a lot simpler then…. Useless fact: the pylons to the west of the bridge are the second highest in the U.K.and carry 275kV cables across the river.

@hywelw Жыл бұрын

Aust Services were a major stopping point for us a a family in a caravan, several times an overnight stop as we started a caravan holiday from Wales to the Continent!! It sported the biggest motorway cafe in the UK - it was ENORMOUS and had big windows for views over the bridge (in that privately owned building now).I also remember that rampway you showed in your video too - somehow it went "down" into the services - I think it was under a road - but I have no memory of t coming back up. I do remember being left there by my school trip to the London Museums - because I got too engrossed with the games machines they had there at the time - it was only 1982 at the time ...

@kevinshelley2803 Жыл бұрын

As a young adult I used to work in the old services back in the 90's when it was owned by Rank - in the ice cream parlour outside next to the main entrance doors. Of course back then there was only one bridge, so in the summer especially, the place was heaving. Crazy days. 🙂

@authenticmikejones Жыл бұрын

Andy Powell drove the golf cart from the Vale of Glamorgan Hotel to Cardiff West services, which is about 4 miles away (about 1 mile on country roads and the rest on the motorway).

@melissanewton7462 Жыл бұрын

I noted when I visited recently that the motorway lighting when it was the M4 appears to have disappeared. Back in the sixties, it had tall lighting masts on the run up to the old bridge on both sides.

@Anmeteor9663 Жыл бұрын

When I lived in Gloucester many years ago, Aust services and its amazing restaurant were then only place open at 3am. So you and your latest young lady friend had been kicked out of pub, Indian and nightclub and she didn't want to go home at that time when she could tell her Mum she'd stayed at a mates place. The bridge was all lit up with fairy lights and the car park was quiet enough😉 Ahhh, the romance of it all😁

@paarker Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good night out. Not many can say that at a services these days.

@dieselbushcraft1299 11 ай бұрын

Lovely engine sound in the tunnel at the end It’s interesting how your video and presentation styles have changed from your first videos to your current videos, great stuff John.

@AutoShenanigans 11 ай бұрын

You can track the "progression" from day 1 to now... it's come a long way!! Thanks for watching mate

@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek Жыл бұрын

I remember the original Sarn Park services - visited on a tortuous journey to St. David's.

@adamfizz Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, living locally, my grandparents used to take me and siblings for days out to Aust services. I ate in the massive restaurant, walked under the breach (slippery rocks!) and would buy cassettes from WH Smith or whatever the equivalent was. Weird choice for a family day trip but it's left me with a sense of nostalgia about what the services became.

@bobstirling6885 Жыл бұрын

Aust services was worthy of a family day out.

@MrGreatplum Жыл бұрын

My father in law lives in deepest, darkest wales so this route along the m4 is very familiar (as are the very anonymous service stations!)

@TheFlyingBusman Жыл бұрын

Can wholeheartedly condone giving it the berries in a tunnel. 👍

@Teesbrough Жыл бұрын

Not ‘oust’ nor ‘ost’ but ‘orst’. Back in 1966 when the Severn Bridge opened I was (at a very young age) living on a canal boat near Frampton-on-Severn not far away to the north. I remember seeing the procession of official cars for the opening driving along the A38 from Gloucester. The restaurant inside the original service building had spectacular views across the estuary. Service was not great but what I remember most, from soon after it opened, was a machine on the back counter into which pellets were dropped at the top, churning out stringy chips at the bottom.

@brianartillery Жыл бұрын

I visited here with my family in the early 1980's, on the way to holiday. (When it was still Aust Services) We ordered drinks, and I got a lemon Fanta. The serving lady filled my glass very full, and suggested I take a mouthful from the top so it didn't spill. I did. The Fanta was very cold, and extremely fizzy. The effect on me was instant. A very loud, and resonant belch, which echoed round the cafeteria, and silenced it. My dad and kid brother laughed, but mum wanted the floor to swallow her up. Never had cause to go there since.

@ritamatters9129 Жыл бұрын

Great memories of the old Aust services. I stayed at the lodge at the new one some years back too - very helpful lady on reception. She was better than a tour guide.

@bobstirling6885 Жыл бұрын

Aust used to be a massive service station before the new Severn crossing opened. Always full of coaches and so busy.

@brokenbritain9441 2 ай бұрын

🤔 I think you missed a service station out😮 it is Pencoed junction 35😊 and the latest news is Bridgend council and the highway agency are planning a new service station on junction 37😉 love your shows keep up the good work❤❤❤

@SteveDull 2 жыл бұрын

Lovin the shots from the drone

@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain 2 жыл бұрын

Another cracking vjdeo, that view of the Severn through, that's what you want from a service station.

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

I hear you got some good bridges up there too ;) Severn View so far tops the list for me, despite the services themselves are fairly small.

@howardalexander0621 2 жыл бұрын

Great ending!

@caravaningincarathevan467 2 жыл бұрын

interesting vlog

@simondamsell5508 Жыл бұрын

Severn view when Aust was very busy if you look on google earth the huge carpark is still there the diversion of the M4 to the 2nd severn crossing (Prince of Wales Bridge ) took the traffic away

@ulazygit Жыл бұрын

Think the mustang was probably the best thing about the services in this episode … yes, disappointing but awesome that you took me down memory lane … cheers auto shenanigans

@Jameshoward999 Жыл бұрын

Sarn park services building was rebuilt in 2016

@ianhill20101 2 жыл бұрын

Sarn parks new building used to be civic rescue recovery for lorrys etc, few engine swaps went on in there vvc metros etc then send then down the motorway brap.

@henkmeerdink2088 Жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention that all motorway services in Wales are on one side of the motorway, accessed from roundabouts connected to local roads, rather than slip roads of the motor carriage way. All of them are therefore accessible to all traffic. Does that still make them motorway services?

@DeeCee1150 9 ай бұрын

Another interesting fact regarding the original Severn Bridge is that Gene Pitney filmed the Bridge on a video of his hit 24 Hours From Tulsa - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b6-peqx_s7rVnY0.html

@MrAustin241080 2 жыл бұрын

Used to visit Oust on way to wales Pendine as a kid in 80’s and 90’s they made a mistake selling old building it used to be amazing eating in the restaurant overlooking river seven.

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite services it turns out. There's so much to see. Amazing that you "experienced" the old building.. do you recall the ramp that takes you down "undergound" to what I think was an entrance?

@EverydayEverything360 2 жыл бұрын

I remember going to the old Sarn Park.

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

Did it have a horrible carpet, or not that long ago? I presume it was the older hexagonal buildings? :D

@EverydayEverything360 2 жыл бұрын

@@AutoShenanigans Yes. They were literally conservatories, they even had house like ceiling fans in them. XD

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

@@EverydayEverything360 Amazing.. such a shame they get rid of all the nice designs.

@MikeMike-sw5ko Жыл бұрын

Pont Abraham has the accolade for the most expensive Fuel in UK motorway services

@matthewsmatters Жыл бұрын

I’m semi-aware of one general fact about Welsh motorway services that wasn’t mentioned in this video - that building the Welsh portion of M4 into the 70s if I recall right, DfT axed plans to build exits for and create services then, as a cost cutting measure. Probably due to the inflation they had back then, like we are going through now in 2022. I remembered reading about this somewhere as you were mentioning all the opening dates, some 80s, most later. Would be interested to know if all the services had dedicated slipways added to the motorway for them, or if they are using the pre-existing junctions?

@georgiapring2505 Жыл бұрын

I worked there in restaurant

@hulahoopone Жыл бұрын

It'll always be Aust for me!

@Paul.swanseavilla 5 ай бұрын

Im sure Swansea services is now 24 hour partly. WHSmith and costa open and petrol and Travelodge maned

@granddadmark7639 Жыл бұрын

Visited Aust services before the SSC was built only to let the car cool down and top up with water and oil many moons ago. Else you are spot on services in Wales are dull, very dull. Remember watching Sarn being built as I negotiated the road works for what seemed like years.

@dgattenb Жыл бұрын

Newport services is the worst ive been too. there were folk doing donuts in their cars in the carpark,,, just missing other cars ..... inside was not much better with dogging at the back, and drugs being exchanged .. this was at 15:00 on a Saturday

@baljacques7507 Жыл бұрын

Been there loads of times and never encountered the dogging. Seems like I'm missing a trick...

@RealThunderPRO Жыл бұрын

For future references, it is: 'Croeso i Gymru' not 'Croeso i Wales' :) (I know that as I partly speak Welsh)

@andymckenna1262 11 ай бұрын

Gymru? You sure ?

@RealThunderPRO 11 ай бұрын

@@andymckenna1262 Yes because the welsh word for Wales in Cymru, but there is a rule in welsh where you soften words, so because of the i after croeso Cymru becomes Gymru

@skiddmarks 2 жыл бұрын

Pont Abraham services was a regular 'meeting point' for illegal raves back in the early 90s

@mikecawood 2 жыл бұрын

You are venturing into the suppressed land of Comrade Drakeford.

@barneypaws4883 Жыл бұрын

@WelshAssassino Жыл бұрын

Clown

@chillybrit2334 Жыл бұрын

This services is operated by Moto, it's great, as you would expect from Moto. Footage, interesting detail. This services is operated by Welcome Break. Blurrrr, back on the motorway. So much for being objective I guess.

@geoffreycoan Жыл бұрын

Well I learnt two new things from that video, that there are 6 service stations in Wales, I would have thought there was only 1 or 2 (Severn View is in England so doesn’t count), but more surprisingly, Jon has hair under the beanie hat. Wow, who’d have thought that 🎉

@julias-shed Жыл бұрын

Fun fact My second cousin lives near Sarn services 🤣

@maggiemay9381 2 жыл бұрын

The reason the services are so close together on the last two is because Pont Abraham gets most HGV from Pembroke Dock Ferry. The other service station get Swansea travellers.

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

Well that sure does make a lot of sense! Thanks for watching :)

@maggiemay9381 2 жыл бұрын

@@AutoShenanigans yes the ferry has lorries to and from Ireland and other parts of the country twice a day.....🖑 from Swansea.😊

@maggiemay9381 2 жыл бұрын

@@AutoShenanigans I forgot to mention that Pont Abraham also get the lorries from Fishguard ferries too. The other services get more from hoiday makers at the Swansea beaches. Lol I won't even tell you how I know so much the story's way way too long 😂

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

@@maggiemay9381 Do people really "holiday on the beaches" at Swansea? ;-) A shame I didn't have your wealth of knowledge before making the episode :D

@maggiemay9381 2 жыл бұрын

@@AutoShenanigans not aware of any rubber dinJees pulling up there with holiday makers from foreign lands nudge nudge wink wink .😂 he's waving Petunia. ....

@yeoldegrumpy-git1483 Жыл бұрын

Cymru even

@micbsounds 2 жыл бұрын

The bridge shot looked great chaps. DId any of the Welsh services qualify for worst? Or perhaps least interesting?

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate... I wouldn't say worst.. but certainly least interesting :D

@Smoneey 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine writing the welsh welcome but choosing the english word for Wales lol

@6643bear 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, the 7 bridge was badly needed to get into Wales , originally was the M4 before built another now carries the M4 . Regards mark

@JD-wn3cc Жыл бұрын

And do you know why Cardiff services was used as a filming location for an English services in gavin and stacey? Its because gavin and stacey is filmed almost exclusively in Wales. Even mick and pams house is actually in Wales, rather than essex

@jca111 Жыл бұрын

Yes their house was in Dinas Powys, near Cardiff and Penarth.

@Scrubworks 2 жыл бұрын

Everyone gangster until Greggs bounces them out of the food court.

@ziggydamaestro Жыл бұрын

Translation?

@richardjones7994 Жыл бұрын

Croeso I Gymru.

@ClydebridgeStation Жыл бұрын

As long as they have a WH Smith, they get my seal of approval.

@orthodoxsilian Жыл бұрын

You forgot Monmouth South.

@aledd3400 Ай бұрын

On the A40 not on the motorway

@nigelwyn Жыл бұрын

Nothing alleged about the Andy Powell incident. He’s admitted it himself. Fined and banned from driving because of it.

@bobstirling6885 Жыл бұрын

Maygor, not Maggor.

@professorpodcast3029 2 жыл бұрын

WIll you be Doing A Road Services? Like Queensferry, Dumbarton or Broxden?

@AutoShenanigans 2 жыл бұрын

We thought about it but realised it would be in the hundreds rather than 94. Maybe something for the future.

@baddrivingsouthwales4789 2 жыл бұрын

You missed out Cardiff West.

@skiddmarks 2 жыл бұрын

No he didnt

@tobyjackman3212 Жыл бұрын

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

@paulstevens64 2 жыл бұрын

Guitarist?

@MrDannyDetail 2 жыл бұрын

I just had to look it up myself. Apparently Richie Edwards the bassist was in The Darkness, whilst this Richie was a guitarist and in Manic Street Preachers. I'm guessing their quick check of wikipedia didn't go beyond the first part of the first line of the article for the one in The Darkness, where 'bassist' is mentioned, and so they didn't read on past that part and therefore didn't know they had the wrong one and hence the wrong instrument.

@majorvonhapenallthetime8602 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrDannyDetail Also, there are fans of MSP who'll tell you that there's evidence that shows Richie's disappearance was staged. Investigator Richard D Hall seems to have doubts, especially over the police "investigation" that was perfunctory at best, assuming that if someone parks their car by a bridge, then "disappears", they MUST have taken their own life by jumping off the bridge.

@johnd1466 2 жыл бұрын

@@majorvonhapenallthetime8602 I wonder if the rest of the group still save his share of royalties ( adds to the mystery of his disappearance - sending him a slice of the cash )

@timothyduggan2263 Жыл бұрын

Barely a guitarist - he was generally not plugged in when playing live! He was the band's primary songwriter though.

@Eric_Hunt194 Жыл бұрын

@@timothyduggan2263 "a poet who can't play guitar"