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Gare Montparnasse is a train station located in the Montparnasse area, in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris, France.

On October 22, 1895, the Granville-Paris Express overran the buffer stop. The locomotive careened across almost 100 feet (30 meters) of the station concourse, crashed through a two-foot thick wall, shot across a terrace and sailed out of the station, plummeting onto the Place de Rennes 30 feet (10 meters) below where it stood on its nose.

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