A gantry spanning the motorway with blue overhead signs showing the following text.
Forward destinations: Abertawe; Swansea M4 .
Exit destinations: A48 Llansawel; Briton Ferry .
Junction number: 41.
We depart the claustrophobic 1960s motorway for a new bridge built in the 1990s now - a crossing of the River Neath that closed the final gap in the M4. Until 1994 the Swansea section wasn't connected to the rest of the motorway.