📋 Tender Overview
Post Schijf the old railway building on the former storage area behind Groningen station will be given a new purpose. Due to the renovation of Groningen station there is no longer any space for the historic building that was used until recently as a shelter for railway personnel. ProRail donated it to Museum Railway STAR which will use it as a souvenir shop. Yesterday it was dismantled in Groningen today it is placed on the museum grounds in Stadskanaal.Water and coalThe building probably dates from the twenties of the last century. At the time Groningen was a depot where steam locomotives were supplied with water and coal. There was a turntable on the rail yard behind the station to turn the locomotives and to have them change tracks. Post Schijf was next to the turntable and probably got its name. It was a kind of signal box from which the processes in the field were coordinated. In the later years it remained in use as a residence for shunting personnel who parked trains on the stabling yard. From June this year the stabling site was demolished to make room for the construction work of the Groningen Spoorzone project. And now it was time to move Post Schijf.Unique with historical valueIt is a unique house with great historical value says Pieter Boneschansker volunteer at the STAR Museum Railway. He also used it in the 1990s as a shunter at NS where he still works and has fond memories of it. A nice place where the stove was on and you could update the administration he says. As STAR we wanted to prevent this from being demolished precisely because it was built in the same style as the signal boxes that used to be on the Stadskanaal-Ter Apel rail link. There are no longer any precise construction drawings and we actually know very little about the history. Who built it and has it always been in Groningen That makes it even more interesting and fun that it is preserved. Second life as a souvenir shopProRail responded positively to STARs request to take over the building and decided to donate it to the Museum Railway. Construction manager Gerrit Wessels It is fantastic that it is saved from demolition in this way and given a second life as a souvenir shop in Stadkanaal. STAR requested a contribution from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds to finance the move. They also saw the importance of preserving the building and thus the preparations for the move could start. The STAR is very grateful to ProRail the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and also the contractor of the Groning Spoorzone Strukton project for their support and cooperation says Pieter. The roof offThe moving spectacle started yesterday with the hoisting of the roof. Then the rest of the building followed. Very early this morning it arrived on two trucks with special transport to the museum site in Stadskanaal and put it down again. STAR volunteers will bring it back to its original condition in the coming months. Visitors are expected to be able to admire it from the inside next Ascension Day on National Steam Train Day.
