The end of the metro line, with the two whale tails (image by Quistnix at nl.wikipedia, reduced in size, and shared via CC-BY-SA-2.5 licence)
The story goes that in 2020, a metro train crashed through a buffer stop in Rotterdam and would have fallen 10 metres to the ground had it not been for a whale sculpture built on the sidings. The driver escaped unharmed and its sculptor Maarten Struijs, said he was surprised it held together.
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