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English in the News - Is this the Whale Way Station?

This strange headline appeared in the Daily Mail, on a story of how a Dutch metro train, that overshot the end of the line, was saved by a sculpture of a whale.  Actually the tail of a whale.  If the sculpture hadn't been there, the train would have plummeted 30 feet into a river.   The headline plays on the pronunciation of railway, to whale-way.  

Incredibly the name of the sculpture is "Saved by the Whale's Tail".  You couldn't make it up, could you.

!Note - Some people struggle with the letter "r" and replace it with a "w", the most famous person is probably Jonathon Ross, who pronounces his own name "Jonathon Woss". 

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