Location: M 7 (Westlink - Western Sydney Orbital).
The second sign in NSW usually is another fork sign, this time showing the control city (or, rather exceptionally on this road, control cities) as well. The name of the intersecting road is written in smallcaps against a white background. Australians, after all, tend to refer to the names of roads instead of to their numbers.
Photo: Sam Laybutt / Ozroads
Location: Pacific Motorway (Brisbane - Sydney)
The second sign in Queensland is only a fork sign in complex situation. Most of the time, you'll just get the directions and the words "left lane".
Location: E 19 (Antwerpen - Rotterdam).
Just the odd fork sign, showing road numbers for both the exit and the road ahead. Rotterdam and Breda are major directions of the road ahead. There's no name of the next exit. For both the road ahead and the exit, road numbers are shown (but no exit number). For motorways, this will always be a European road number. Belgian roads do have national numbers, but they're hardly signposted anymore.
Location: A 29 (Rotterdam - Bergen op Zoom)
Yes, this is the same photo as the approach shield. All the shields indicating the exit are the same in The Netherlands - only the distance to the exit varies of course.
Location: A 61 (Ludwigshafen - Venlo).
All destinations for the exit and, where applicable, the number of the intersecting road. The town at the top of this fork sign is the name of the next exit, not a control city.
Location: D 5 (Praha - Plzen)
Same sign as the approach sign. The "5" on a red background is the Czech domestic motorway number, below that is the European road number. Road numbers for the exit are Czech domestic numbers.
Photo: Ceske Dalnice
Location: A 6 (Luxembourg - Brussels).
This sign is of the more recent style, with older signs still using a standard fork instead of this smallash one. The older signs also show cities ahead, whereas this one doesn't. Yellow is the background colour for non-motorways in Luxembourg. Apart from the exit number, the road number is shown on the white shield on top of the sign.
Photo: Frits
Location: A 1 (Autoroute du Nord, Paris - Lille)
Exit number, distance and all the destinations of the exit. Italics are used for areas in town, such as the Commercial Center and the industrial area (the Z.I. after Hénin-Beaumont. White is the standard background colour for non-motorways.
Location: Lunton, M 6 (Birmingham - Glasgow).
This time, the directions ahead come in. Quite similar to the NSW sign, really, apart from its colour (in the UK, motorways are signposted blue instead of green). Note the direction ahead - "The North". At least in Europe, signs will almost invariably point to a city and hardly ever to an area of the nation. The UK and Ireland are different in that respect.
Photo: Chris / CBRD
Location: AP-2 (Barcelona - Zaragoza)
Indeed the same sign as the first approach sign. There is no difference in Spain. The blue background of this sign is odd in a way, since blue is the background colour for destinations on the motorway only (i.e. not those on the exit). That's why things change at the exit sign.
Photo: Chrizz
Location: A 1 (Salzburg - Wien)
The name of the exit is on the left-hand side; the directions are on the right. "Freilichtmuseum" and "Naturpark" are put on a green background, because they are not towns or areas therein, but specific destinations within a town, i.e. a museum and a park.
Photo: Walter Brummer / Verkehrsnotizen
Location: Poznan, A 2 (Berlin - Warschau)
The first approach sign also gives all the directions for the exit. Blue is the colour for motorways and green for other major roads, hence the green background for the exit directions.
Photo: Autostrady
Location: A 7 (Zürich - Konstanz)
The directions for the exit on a blue background and a pull-through sign on top in green, which is the colour for motorways. The pull-through sign in Switzerland will always show in next exit (in this case: Kreuzlingen Nord) and sometimes a control city (in this case: Konstanz). The "D" refers to Germany, as Konstanz is in Germany.
Photo: Ronan / Schweizer Autobahnen
Location: Kings Highway 400 (Toronto - Parry Sound)
Same sign as the first approach sign. As a matter of fact, there aren't any further advance direction signs on rural freeways in Ontario.
Photo: Scott Steeves / Ont Highways
Location: M 1 (Princess Fwy, coastal road from Melbourne - Sydney)
Quite the same as the first approach sign, but the distance has been replaced by the words "left lane". The name of the intersecting road has been placed on a white background, as is common in Australia (except in the Northern Territory, where the name of the road goes in white capitals on green). This sign is overhead, but that needs not be in Victoria.
Photo: Darren Hodges / Signspotters
Location: E 75 (Helsinki - Lahti)
Same sign as the first approach sign, which already gives all directions. With Swedish being an official language in Finland, this sign is bilingual. Each destination is listed in Finnish first, then in Swedish. Green is the background colour for the motorway, blue for highways and white for innercity destinations. Tikkurila / Dickursby is an area in Helsinki.
Photo: Ronan / Schweizer Autobahnen
Location: E6 (Malmö - Oslo)
A repeat of the first approach sign. The N in Landskrona N is a abbreviation denoting the North of town. The other three directions are typically abbreviated too in Sweden. Also note the use of colours on Swedish signs. The colour green is used for motorways only, those in blue are towns on non-motorways. The colour white is used for areas in town.
Photo: Chris
Location: A 7 (Ljubljana - Rijeka)
Stack sign, giving the same details as the first approach sign.
Photo: Rien / Belgian Roads
Location: E 45 (Flensburg - Arhus)
All the destinations of the exit. The "24" in yellow refers is a highway number. The hexogonal with a number in it, is the exit number. Exits in denmark are numbered as a sequence.
Photo: ABRob
Location: Autostrada La Serenissima - A 4 (Torino - Trieste)
This time on a blue background, a number of destinations that can also be reached via this exit. On top is the Italian word for exit (uscita) and the name of the exit. Below are the destinations. In Italy, this list can be rather long. Not too much of a problem, because most of the destinations won't be signposted anymore on the exit (which is the reason they're posted on this type of signs).
Location: E 429 (Tournai - Brussels)
This sign usually gives all the destinations and road numbers of the exit. However, there is only one destination for this particular exit. The other one is coverplated for some reason.
Location: National Highway 1 (Keelung - Kaohsiung)
The directions of the exit and an instruction to go to the right-hand side of the road in order to prepare to exit. The "45" is the exit number, "162" is the road number.
Photo: Darren Hodges / Signspotters
Location: A 8 (Patras - Athens)
All directions for the exit and the road ahead. The white symbol on the upper right-hand side points to the ferry terminal of Patras.
Photo: E. Gavic / autosnelwegen.net
Location: A 24 (Viseu - Verin)
The control city for the road ahead and the focals for the exit. In comparison to the first approach sign, the sign only gives the name of the exit and the intersecting road number. The indirect referrals (road numbers between brackets) and other focals of the exit are not listed. The exit number is on the upper right, with exits being numbered as a sequence.
Photo: Seppl
Location: A 24 (Viseu - Verin)
Sign gives all the directions for the exit and, on a yellow background, the exit number. This exit is not yet numbered, however, so the space for the number is still left open. As to the road numbers, the two numbers between brackets are roads not actually intersecting the motorway, but roads reached via this exit. Quite English, as a matter of fact.
Photo: Seppl
Location: T 1 (Kingston - Ocho Rios)
The first approach sign gives all directions of the exit straight away. No further signs appear before the exit itself.
Photo: Dwarf
Location: I 280 (San Francisco - San Jose)
This sign shows a number of additional directions that can be reached through the exit you're approaching. They do not return on the "regular" exit signs. This particular sign also indicates a number of services on the exit. Most of the time, though, the services appear on separate approach signs, as the typical US exit features a lot of them.
Photo: Marcel Monterie
Location: N 12 (Johannesburg - Ermelo)
The first approach sign gives all the focals for the exit. Sometimes additional signs are placed in between with some extra destinations that can be used through the exit, mostly touristy or services. The sign is blue, which is the colour used for motorways in South Africa. Green is the colour for non-motorways, but that colour is not shown on the exit signage. As pull-through information, only the road number is shown. If a road is tolled, a yellow circle with a T in it stands next to the road number.
Location: MR 3 (Mbabane - Manzani)
The first approach sign gives all the focals for the exit and the intersecting road number straight away, as well as the road number for pull-through information.
Location: SR2 (Perth - Joondalup)
There is no other advance directional sign than the first approach sign, which consequently gives all the focals for the exit. In metropolitan Perth, where all of WA's motorways are situated, this is only the name of the intersecting road. The sign is made in a shade of green known in Australia as freeway green, as it was only used on freeways. Nowadays, however, the standard type of green is used for all directional signage in WA - on freeways or not.
Photo: Paul Rands / Expressway
Location: SH18 (Western Ring of Auckland)
No other advance directional signage apart from the first approach sign.
Photo: Ben / Auckland Motorways
Location: E75 (Skopje - Athens)
Focals for the road ahead and for the exit. The transcriptions in two character sets make the sign a very crowded one. Yellow is the background colour for ordinary roads, not being motorways or expressways. Exits are not (yet) numbered in Macedonia.
Photo: Bojan / Build.com.mk
