The mechanical bull that wowed crowds at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony is to be given a full-time home in the city’s main railway station.
The 32ft-tall creation, known as the Raging Bull, is to be installed in the atrium of Birmingham New Street station, Network Rail said. At the end of the Games, the mechanical marvel was visited by around four million people while in its temporary home in Centenary Square in Birmingham city centre.
Then, in September 2022, it was covered up and put in a car park in Ladywood, Birmingham, where fears were raised that it would be left to deteriorate. However, city chiefs vowed that it would eventually be found a more fitting resting place. Council bosses and regional mayor Andy Street have now hailed as “fantastic” news that the bull will soon be greeting the station’s 800,000 weekly footfall of passengers and pedestrians.
