Badger train stoppage will continue for weeks; Badgers digging in 40 locations
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- 23 Mar 2023
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It will be weeks before two train routes will be back up and running after a badger den underneath sections of rail raised concerns about the stability of the railroad. The NS timetable was updated this week to indicate that trains affected by the badgers will not run until at least April 24 between Workum and Stavoren in Friesland. On Tuesday, railroad infrastructure firm ProRail said that trains will also have to stop running for a week between Den Bosch and Eindhoven in Noord-Brabant, however that now looks like it will take even longer. A bus service is replacing the trains in both locations.
Badgers are digging near or under the train tracks at 40 locations, particularly in the eastern part of the Netherlands, according to ProRail. The organization previously applied for permission to remove the badgers affecting the track in Friesland, and on Tuesday filed an application to do the same in Esch, Noord-Brabant. However, it will be a few more weeks "before trains can run on the track again," a ProRail spokesperson told Nu.nl.
The news outlet said a badger den, or sett, involves tunnels that are roughly 30 centimeters wide. A family of badgers living together can burrow extensively until they have created as many as 30 different rooms in one sett. Each room is about 50 centimeters high. Read More…
