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headhouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From head + house.

Meanings

1. The portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.
   • Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway. 2007 January 8, William Neuman, “Planners Clash Over Transit Hub, and Riders Win”, in New York Times:
2. The overground portion of a subway station.
3. A structure built at the top of a ventilation shaft or mineshaft.
   • 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. 2020 December 2, “Network News: Vent shaft design revealed”, in Rail, page 19:

Forms

Translations (11)

fr bâtiment des voyageurs (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · es mezanine (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · csb banowiszcze (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · de Empfangsgebäude (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · de Zugangsgebäude (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · eo stacidomo (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · de Aufnahmegebäude (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · es zaguán (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · de Stationsgebäude (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · pl dworzec kolejowy (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.) · de Empfangshalle (portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.)