headhouse

See also: head house

English

head +‎ house

headhouse (plural headhouses)

The portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.
- 2007 January 8, William Neuman, “Planners Clash Over Transit Hub, and Riders Win”, in New York Times‎:
  Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway.
The overground portion of a subway station.
A structure built at the top of a ventilation shaft or mineshaft.
- 2020 December 2, “Network News: Vent shaft design revealed”, in Rail, page 19:
  HS2 Ltd has unveiled the final design for the Little Missenden ventilation shaft headhouse on the ten-mile-long Chilterns Tunnel. Its single-storey design is said to have been inspired by barns and historic agricultural buildings in the area. [...] The headhouse will sit above a ventilation shaft 17.4 metres in diameter and 30 metres deep.

portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.

Esperanto: stacidomo
French: bâtiment des voyageurs m
German: Empfangsgebäude n, Empfangshalle (de) f, Zugangsgebäude n, Stationsgebäude n, Aufnahmegebäude n
Kashubian: banowiszcze n
Polish: dworzec kolejowy (pl) m
Spanish: zaguán (es) m, mezanine m

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