An MS3 electronic message sign suspended over the road from a post on the left with flashing amber lights and the following text.
TO J8; 24 MINS.
This five-mile length of motorway, between junctions 3 and 4, was originally two lanes wide, and has no hard shoulder through bridges as a reminder that it was widened in a hurry. The rest of the M5 through to junction 8 was also a two-lane motorway at one time, all of it widened to three lanes and then some of it again to four.