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Metro Train Left Hanging Over 30ft Drop After Crashing Off Tracks - and Landing On Art

The train was caught by a piece of art titled 'Saved by a Whale's Tail' after it crashed through the stop-barriers at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, Netherlands

Daily Mirror UK, 2 NOV 2020

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A metro train which smashed through the end of a platform was saved from plummeting to the ground by a piece of art.

Last night the vehicle crashed through the barrier at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, Netherlands.

Rather than hurtling about ten metres to the floor below, the train was caught by a large sculpture poetically titled 'Saved by a Whale's tail'.

The metro driver, who was the only person on board, managed to get out unharmed.

Despite working remarkably well as a back-up train barrier, the piece of work was not designed with that function in mind.

Artist Maarten Struijs told AD : “There are two tails. If the metro had hit that other tail, I think it would have fallen through.

"Sure, it looks poetic, but it's really a stroke of luck that the train is carried by the tail."

The collision started a small fire which was quickly extinguished.

It is not yet clear how the crash happened.

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Emergency services are on the scene working out how to pull the train back into the station.

The driver is said to be shocked but otherwise well.