Sextant (station building)
A sextant is a type of station building, of which buildings were erected by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) from 1968 to 1979 in sixteen locations.
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The type came from the architect Cees Douma , who planned many other station buildings, including the Gorinchem . The original name for the building type was zeshoek (Dutch, German hexagon ) and was later changed to sextant. The buildings were built to replace existing station buildings or as new suburban stations. In each of them there was a counter, service room and waiting room.
buildings
Of the 16 originally built sextants, only seven still existed in 2008:
- Haren (1968)
- Rotterdam Alexander (1968; demolished 1983)
- Utrecht Overvecht (1968; demolished 1995)
- Tilburg University (1969)
- Vlaardingen West (1969; demolished 2006)
- Voorschoten (1969; demolished 1992)
- Bussum Zuid (1970)
- Delft Campus (1970; demolished June 2006)
- Dordrecht Zuid (1970; demolished)
- Maassluis West (1970; demolished in May 2007)
- Eindhoven Beukenlaan (1971)
- Beek-Elsloo (1975)
- Susteren (1975)
- Geleen-Lutterade (1976; demolished 2006)
- Diemen (1978)
- Nijmegen Heyendaal (1979; demolished 1999)
Web links
- Stationsgebouwen type sextant . In: stationsweb.nl . (Dutch)