There is an actual Thomas episode where they brick one of the other engines into a depot tunnel. This feels like the logical next phase of the Thomas the Torture Engine reign of terror.

They actually did basically this exact crash in the Season 5 episode "A Better View for Gordon" when Gordon smashes through a station wall. Season 5 was wild.

My thesis advisor gave me that book at the beginning of my PhD. One of his few good pieces of advice during the thesis.

Now I want to decorate my walls exclusively with the pics of the greatest fails of humankind

It’s a well-respected mood.

I don't wonder, it has to be

Promoted to subway.

Text on the building appears to be French, and we all know how wild they can get with their artistic endeavors.

It's a station terminus, not a restaurant. The tracks and platforms are elevated and this station is at the end of the line. You'd enter from street level into a concourse with stairs that led to the tracks above.

The driver was trying to make up for lost time, and the train couldn't stop in time when it entered the station too fast and the air brakes failed. It ended up smashing through the buffer stops, flying through the concourse and then crashing through the wall onto the street below. Trains have a lot of momentum.

Montparnasse derailment