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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 the ...

(NS). A subsidiary company of NS Stations is NS Stations Retailbedrijf (formerly Servex; founded in 1973), which uses the brands

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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

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, 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

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File:Hema station Leiden.jpg, A HEMA store at Leiden Centraal railway station File:Swirls.JPG, A Swirl's ice cream parlour at Den Haag Centraal railway station

References

External links

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