Tail fluke saves metro train

In Fluke Accident, Sculpture of Whale Tails Saves Train From 33 ...

A red and silver metro train rests precariously, hanging off of the train tracks, On November 2, a metro train shot through a stop block at ...

Tail fluke saves metro train (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - Reddit

Saved by the Tail! Rotterdam metro overshoots the end of the station only to be saved by a random whale tail sculpture. Nobody injured, ...

What a fluke: Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro train | AP News

The architect who designed the sculpture, Maarten Struijs, told Dutch broadcaster RTL he was pleased that it likely saved the life of the driver ...

What a fluke: Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro train

SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands (AP) — This really was a fluke. The driver of a metro train escaped injury when the front carriage rammed through ...

The Whale Tail Sculptors Who Saved A Runaway Train - Forbes

19 years ago, Hans Muller, Peter Globevnik, and Eric van Uden completed the 'Whale Tails' sculpture that sits at the end of the metro line in ...

'Saved by a Whale's Tail' – Spijkenisse, Netherlands - Atlas Obscura

At the De Akkers metro station in Rotterdam's suburb of Spijkenisse on November 2nd, 2020, a metro train breached the station's end barriers ...

'Fluke' landing saves train from 30-foot drop - New York Daily News

It's a whale of a tail, and a fluke not to be believed, but you can't make this stuff up. A rogue metro barreled past the barrier denoting ...

Composite whale tail sculpture saves runaway metro train in ...

Peter Globevnik, the head structural engineer behind the tails explains: “The shape of the fluke on the whale tail makes a perfect wing. We knew that this ...

Giant whale sculpture catches crashing metro train in midair

The sculpture — titled “Saved by the Whale's Tail,” according to Reuters, a reference to what rail engineers call a “tail track” — was erected ...

Train saved from plunging 10m into water... by a whale tail sculpture ...

The metro train was left balancing on the tail fins - known as "flukes" - 10m above the ground near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. The crash ...

Giant whale tail saves metro train from crashing to the ground

Total fluke: Giant whale tail saves metro train from crashing to the ground. Ironically, the sculpture is named 'Saved by the Whale's Tail ...

Whale tail sculpture saves Dutch train from crashing into water

This really was a fluke. The driver of a metro train escaped injury when the front carriage rammed through the end of an elevated section of ...

Topic: Whale's tail saves Dutch metro train – Business Traveller

Participant. [postquote quote=1014617][/postquote]. Caption: “The Catch Was A Fluke”. 2 Nov 2020 at 13:55. #1014625 · Inquisitive. Participant. Amid all the ...

What a Fluke! How Art, Science and Engineering saved a mans life!

A Dutch metro train was saved by a unique piece of urban art 10 ... saved by a blue whale tail sculpture! It is still unclear what may ...

Whale tail sculpture saves Dutch metro train that ran off track

The driver of the train, which had no passengers on board, was unharmed in the fluke incident which happened just after midnight at ...

Driver escapes injury as Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro ...

This really was a fluke. The driver of a metro train escaped injury when the front carriage rammed through the end of an elevated section of ...

Pure fluke - metro train saved by whale tail | Railway Magazine 1437 ...

A large crane was brought to the scene to lift the leading carriage from the whales' tail at De Akkers station. AD VAN STEN. RARELY do minor accidents on metro ...

The Telegraph - This really was a fluke. A Dutch metro train was ...

Joe Ashton But it was the flukes (tail lobes) on the whale that saved the train. 4 yrs. 1. Carole Burton. Joe Ashton whales tails are called ...

Pure Fluke – Metro Train Saved By Whale Tail - The Railway ...

Pure Fluke – Metro Train Saved By Whale Tail - Read online for free. RARELY do minor accidents on metro systems make global news but Rotterdam's RET metro ...

Whale tail saves Dutch metro train | Kuwait Times Newspaper

The driver of the train, which had no passengers on board, was unharmed in the fluke incident which happened just after midnight at ...