NS Stations () is a Dutch company that owns and manages over 400

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NS Stations. Retrieved 5 January 2015. It is a subsidiary of national rail operator

Nederlandse Spoorwegen Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and t ...

(NS). A subsidiary company of NS Stations is NS Stations Retailbedrijf (formerly Servex; founded in 1973), which uses the brands Automaten, Brasserie Het Station, Burger King (taken over by HMSHost), Café T, Café T espresso, C'est du pain, HEMA, Kiosk, La Place (taken over by HMSHost),

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, Restauratie,

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, Smullers,

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, and Wizzl, and owns Stationsfoodstore, which is an Albert Heijn

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operating about 22 "AH to go" convenience stores on stations. Wizzl also sells train

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. They are typically at small stations which have no separate ticket window or counter; an exception is

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...

, with a Wizzl at the back side of the station, while separate ticket windows are at the front side only. File:Kiosk Utrecht CS.JPG, A Kiosk convenience store at

Utrecht Centraal railway station Utrecht Centraal, officially Station Utrecht Centraal (), is the transit hub that integrates three bicycle parkings, two bus stations, two tram stops and the central railway station for the city of Utrecht in the province of Utrecht, Netherlan ...

File:AH Bijlmer ArenA.jpg, An "AH to go" convenience store at

Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA (; abbreviation: Asb), previously named Amsterdam Bijlmer (1971–2006), is a railway station in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of '' stadsdeel'' (borough) Amsterdam-Zuidoost in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The station has five ...

File:Hema station Leiden.jpg, A HEMA store at

Leiden Centraal railway station Leiden Centraal is the main railway station in Leiden, a city in the Netherlands. History Leiden Centraal station opened on 17 August 1842 as the southern terminal of the first expansion of the Old Line (Dutch: ''Oude Lijn'') from Haarlem. Th ...

File:Swirls.JPG, A Swirl's

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at Den Haag Centraal railway station

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.nsstations.nl/ Nederlandse Spoorwegen Railway companies of the Netherlands