It is common at high-speed junctions to avoid the use of diamond crossings wherever possible — instead a ladder crossingis employed where trains destined for the branch line cross over to the track normally employed for trains travelling in the opposite direction f… AMSTERDAM (AP) — A woman died Sunday of injuries a day after two trains collided head-on in Amsterdam — a crash a top rail official described as one of the worst train disasters in the Netherlands… A Dutch metro train driver escaped injury when the train rammed through an elevated section of rails and was caught by a sculpture of a whale's tail. Het treinstel bungelt zo'n 8 meter boven de grond en rust op een kunstwerk. In a bizarre if rather poetic incident, a metro train has crashed through the stop barrier in the Dutch city of Spijkenisse, only to be salvaged from plummeting to the ground by a piece of art titled ‘Saved by a Whale’s Tail’. An investigation into the circumstances of the crash and how the train flew so far off the rails is currently underway. 2 Min Read. Sure, it looks poetic, but it’s really a stroke of luck that the train is carried by the tail,” said Maarten Struijs, the artist and architect who created the whales. Think your friends would be interested? This really was a fluke. • July 25, 2010 – The driver and a second rail worker are injured when a Speno railgrinder fails to stop in front of the buffer stop at Stavoren. Harmelen, The Netherlands, 1962, 27 december 1982, de dag die ik het liefste zou vergeten, "Onderzoeksrapport botsing plaats tussen een goederen- en reizigerstrein te Roermond op 20 maart 2003 (in Dutch)", "Machinist botsing Amersfoort reed door rood", nu.nl/algemeen | Treinverkeer rond Rotterdam komt weer op gang (video), "nrc.nl – Binnenland – Dode bij treinbotsing Barendrecht", "Two hurt as maintenance train ploughs through shop", "Geen gewonden bij treinbotsing Zevenaar", "More than 100 injured as trains collide in Amsterdam", "Tot 35 gewonden bij aanrijding trams Den Haag", http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/beeldbank/1105/train-derailment-hilversum, "Tramongeluk Den Haag: deel lijn 4 gestremd tot 19.00 uur", "Den Haag FM Trams urenlang stil na ernstig ongeluk – Den Haag FM", "Trein ontspoord na botsing met vrachtwagen", "Treinverkeer Abcoude nog hele avond verstoord", "At least one killed after passenger train smashes crane; Train overturned", "Several seriously hurt in Dutch train crash with milk truck", "DUTCH TRAIN DERAILS NEAR BELGIUM BORDER, INJURING ENGINEER", "Children in cart killed in Dutch rail crash", "Video: Train crashes through semi-trailer in Leeuwarden", "ProRail to press charges against trucker in Leeuwarden train crash", "Dead and two slightly injured after collision between tractor and train in Drenthe | tellerreport.com", "Sculpture of whale's tail saves train from plummeting 30 feet off railway platform", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_rail_accidents_in_the_Netherlands&oldid=996150136, Railway accidents and incidents in the Netherlands, Lists of rail transport accidents and incidents by country, Articles with dead external links from November 2019, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, March 10, 1843 - During a test drive a locomotive derailed on a not well closed railway bridge near, August 10, 1856 - Train accident near Schiedam. A subway train in Rotterdam, Netherlands was saved from a fatal crash when it sped through buffers and landed on a sculpture of a whale’s tail. A runaway Dutch metro train was saved from disaster after it smashed through a stop barrier but then came to rest on a giant sculpture of a whale's tail. 00:04. A metro train serving the town of Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam, has crashed through the barrier at the end of the track and only the sculpture of a whale has stopped it plummeting into the water below. Thankfully, there were no passengers on board at the time of the incident, and the driver was somehow unharmed. Harmelen, in the central Netherlands, is the location of a railway junction where a branch to Amsterdam leaves the Rotterdam to Utrecht line. A Dutch metro train driver escaped injury when the train rammed through an elevated section of rails and was caught by a sculpture of a whale's tail. A metro train in Spijkenisse, near the city of Rotterdam, crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks shortly before midnight on Sunday. Read RT Privacy policy to find out more. News. De metrobestuurder is voor controle naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. The train crashed through stop barriers at the final station of De Akkers in Spijkenisse, near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you, At least 60, incl. Various shots scene of very bad rail crash: an express train to Rotterdam ploughed into another train.