Sextant (station building)

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"Sextant" station in Delft-Zuid (November 2005, meanwhile demolished)

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)

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