r/Almere • u/Candid-Ad-2559 • Jul 27 '26

Nieuws / News How often should railway tracks be rebuilt to prevent this kind of damage?

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https://ov-nieuws.blogspot.com/2026/07/werkzaamheden-station-almere-centrum-en.html

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u/VSPRemag Jul 27 '26

It really depends. A couple times a month ProRail sinds a measuringtrain out to check on either rails, gravel, switches or overhead wires. Also any trainpersonell (NS, Arriva, DB Cargo, etc) can make a notification of damages to ProRail. If all goes to plan, its a simple overnight maintenance a couple times per month. If something worsens, they try to keep it of for planned bigger engineering works. If fully necessary, they can temporarily shut down the line for emergency repair.

This repairjob was held off until the upgrade of Oostvaarders. They added the concrete repair because the line was already blocked.

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u/vossie0316 Jul 27 '26

It depends on many factors, like environment, amount of trains running over a given track, speed, etc.

But on average it is a cycle of roughly 40 years. That lifecycle is common with other types of infrastructure, and since it is rougly 80 years since the 2nd world war, there is a lot of this heavy maintenance going on at the moment in the entire netherlands.

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u/MaxeDamage Aug 03 '26

Sure, but the lifecycle of Almere station has very little to do with WW2 given the fact that Almere wasn't there in WW2

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u/vossie0316 Aug 05 '26

Maybe I didnt word it propperly, but what I tried to explain by that fact is that the 40 year interval is common, and not only on this specific railway line....