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

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s in the

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

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (, , NS ) is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The rail infrastructure is maintained by network manager ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003. Freight operato ...

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

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(taken over by HMSHost), Café T, Café T espresso, C'est du pain, HEMA,

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, La Place (taken over by HMSHost), mr. Pizza,

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, Restauratie,

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, Smullers, Swirl's, and Wizzl, and owns Stationsfoodstore, which is an

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franchise operating about 22 "AH to go"

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s 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:AH Bijlmer ArenA.jpg, An "AH to go" convenience store at Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station File:Hema station Leiden.jpg, A HEMA store at

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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