A blue sign with a diagram showing a branch off the road ahead and the following text.
Forward destinations: Newcastle; Gateshead.
Exit destinations: Chester-le-Street; A167; Stanley; A693.
Junction number: 63.
There's the A167 again - the original line of the A1, although here at Chester-le-Street it runs on another bypass from an earlier time. The history of the A1 is a history of bypasses.