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A part of the Delft city office at the train station, not yet officially opened according to me.
The new station (2015) is the above-ground section designed by Mecanoo Architects of Delft. The underground part was designed by the Amsterdam bureau Benthem Crouwel. The multi-lane station has a hall with a vaulted ceiling with slats depicting a city map of Delft from 1877. The columns and walls of the station hall are lined with broken tiles in a contemporary version of Delft's blue. The bicycle shed is located between the station hall and the platform tunnel platforms (second layer below the ground). The station's entrance is on the side of the city center (Westvest). The station will be integrated with the city office later.
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Early steam trains needed a lot of support things around the trainstations (compared to current ones) to keep them running. Aside classic depots and repair stations which you can still see on the trainstations today, they also needed coal (so stations included coal stores) and water. Because of that, water tanks were common part of stations too. You can still see some of them standing around tracks today here. This Boheminium model depicts how station of Podmokly (now Děčín) looked like in the end of 19th century. The water tower is no longer there, but it had capacity of 150 m, which was more than enough for 10 middle-sized locomotives.