A BOLTON motorway service station has been ranked one of the worst in the country.

Rivington Services has found itself down at the bottom of the 'services league tables' after facilities failed to impress drivers.

Located between junction six and eight on the M61, the service station received damning customer service reports on review site on MotorwayServices.Info.

The website has complied a list of the best and worst services in the country, with Rivington appearing among 20 worst service stations in the country.

In the 327 reviews it received, the services received an average score of one out of five.

Operated by Euro Garages, it boasts a Burger King, Subway, Starbucks, Spar and motel.

Recent reviews warned truckers to stay clear the services, labelling it the "worst in the country" while others complained of unfair parking fines.

The news will come as a blow for Eco Garages which spent £12.3 million rebuilding the station, previously known as Bolton West Services, in 2011.

The services found fame as the subject of Peter Kay's TV 'mockumentary' That Peter Kay Thing in 2001, starring the Bolton-born comedian as service station manageress Pearl Harbour.

It is the second time the station has hit the bottom of motorists' website polls.

In 2009, when it was owned by First Motorway Services, MotorwayServices.Info revealed it had been voted as Britain's worst service station due to its crumbling 1970s buildings and poor facilities.

The old buildings were demolished in the rebuild but drivers remain unimpressed.

Birch Services, located between junctions 18 and 19 on the M62 , in Heywood, was Greater Manchester's top station being ranked as the second best in the UK, with five out of five across 202 reviews.

Euro Garages have been contacted for comment.

The worst services according to MotorwayServices.Info are:-

  1. Michaelwood Services
  2. Keele Services
  3. Tibshelf Services
  4. Sandbach Services
  5. Gordano Services
  6. Magor Services
  7. Chester Services
  8. Newport Pagnell Services
  9. Stop24 Services (Folkestone)
  10. Leigh Delamere Services
  11. Leicester Forest East Services
  12. Frankley Services
  13. Rivington Services
  14. Fleet Services
  15. Thurrock Services
  16. Rownhams Services
  17. Washington Services
  18. Winchester Services
  19. Happendon Services
  20. Warwick Services Northbound

 

The best services according to MotorwayServices.Info are:-

  1. Stirling Services
  2. Southwaite Services
  3. Hilton Park Services
  4. Stafford Services Northbound
  5. Donington Park Services
  6. Wetherby Services
  7. Exeter Services
  8. Swansea West
  9. Burton-in-Kendal Services
  10. Cherwell Valley Services
  11. Ferrybridge Services
  12. Trowell Services
  13. Chieveley Services
  14. Lymm Services
  15. Lancaster (Forton) Services
  16. Birch Services
  17. Taunton Deane Services
  18. Kinross Services
  19. Killington Lake Services
  20. Pease Pottage Services