Thirteen point six. Last Friday Vught’s station building, a 720-tonne national monument, slid 13.6 metres towards the town centre in steps of 40 centimetres, to make room for a fourth railway track. The work began just after eight and was done at 17:01, to applause from dozens of onlookers. The station has never moved so little so carefully.
Shelter, cheap-ish. A former nuclear shelter on the Postjeskade in Amsterdam-West, built in 1940 as a sewage pumping station and converted around 1960, is for sale for €295,000. In 2022 it was offered for €1.1 million; in 2011 it sold for €15,000. Bids close today at 17:00. Living in it is, officially, unclear.
Year of the bat. The Dutch Mammal Society has named 2027 the Year of the Bat. Bats can live up to forty years and raise one pup a year, which at birth weighs about 30% of its mother. Halloween decorations, the organisers say, sell them short.