after talking for an hour with the beetle I started folowing the tracks
Just follow the tracks. While entering Haarlemmermeerstation from the south side, the first thing you see area lot of old cheaply build barns and a train track. The barns are aside of the train track. The train track is also the road where cars and bikers pass the area. I don’t know if the track is still in use or not. But out of curiousity I step on the track and start following it. The track is leading me behind barn, to barn and finally to a strange climax. At the end of this rosty place is an redbricked begin 20 th century building. It looks like a platform where I’m entering as a human train. It is the Haarlemmermeer station building. It’s used by a tram museum and a cafe. The platform is at the same time a terrace of the cafe. You’re not looking at the nice train track that leaded me to this place. You see some artifical nature, platforms for trams and a strage treehouse. This treehouse is the controlling space of the EMA. There a tram conductor makes sure that a tram ride is safe. Originally this building was a part of Amsterdam central station. The NS had no use anymore for the building and gave it as a present to EMA. Since 1980 it is standing next to Haarlemmermeerstation. By the people who live and work in the surrounding the building is also called “de duiventil”. In winter it is freezing in there and when it is summer it is an suana.3 Looking at the way it is built, it has something of the “nieuwe zakelijkheid”. Because of its transparency, use of material and how the windows are orderd. The style of this building makes it a strager in this area.
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Roestplek. Jaargang 11 nr 12. Berichten uit het seinhuis. Janneke Donkerlo. 2005.