Heart of Scotland services

Heart of Scotland services, commonly referred to as Harthill services, is a motorway service station on the M8 motorway between junctions 4a & 5, at Harthill, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland (although less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the boundary with West Lothian and roughly equidistant between Edinburgh and Glasgow, slightly closer to the latter).

The Service Station is the only one on the M8 Motorway, and can be busy, especially at peak times.

When opened in 1971,[citation needed] it was Scotland's first service station.

[1] The original 1971 pedestrian bridge[2] across the motorway was replaced by a modern helical truss structure in 2008.

The £5 million bridge opened to pedestrians and cyclists on 26 November 2008.