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: M5 The SOUTH WEST; Birmingham (W & S); West Bromwich .
Forward destinations: The SOUTH, London (M1 & M40); Birmingham (E, N & C), N.E.C [Railway station symbol] [Airport symbol] M6 .
Junction number: 8.
The M5 begins here and will take you all the way to Devon. This sprawling interchange, Ray Hall Triangle, opened in 1970 - at that time this was the end of the M6, but within two years it would extend all the way to the M1.