Headhouse

Quick meaning: Headhouse is a noun meaning The portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.

Meaning

The portion of a passenger railway terminal not housing the tracks and platforms, comprising ticket counters, baggage facilities, etc.

More Meanings

1. The overground portion of a subway station.
2. A structure built at the top of a ventilation shaft or mineshaft.

Example Sentences

Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway.

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.

Word Forms

• headhouses
• head house

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stationhouse, carhouse, stagehouse, porthouse, railhead, backhouse.

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