Smart Motorway gantry sign
A gantry structure spanning the motorway with electronic signals, blue signs showing a "tiger tail lane drop" where the left lane exits, the right hand two lanes continue ahead and the second lane from the left can go in either direction, and the following text.
Exit destinations: A42 (M42) [Hollow diamond diversion symbol] ; The SOUTH WEST, B'ham.
Forward destinations: The SOUTH, London, Leicester M1 [Solid circle diversion symbol] [Solid diamond diversion symbol].
Junction number: 23A.
This four-lane section, from 24 to 23A, was widened in the 1990s ready for the arrival of the A42, so it has a hard shoulder. We're right under the flight path for East Midlands Airport here, and the runway's landing lights can be seen positioned on the motorway's verges.