A48(M) motorway

The A48(M) motorway in Wales links Cardiff with Newport. It is a 2 mi long M4 spur. At St Mellons, it runs continuously into the dual-carriageway A48, which also has (albeit narrow) hard shoulders. The A48(M) has no other junctions and opened in 1977. The M4 was extended west from junction 29 in 1980.

Previous A48(M) motorways
The 6 mi Port Talbot bypass which opened in 1966, was numbered A48(M) before its incorporation into the westward extension of the M4 in the 1970s. Some maps show the Morriston bypass section of the M4 as also having been originally numbered A48(M), although whether this number was ever used on the ground has been questioned.