in the first years after world war 2 there was a lot of work to repair the dutch railroad and tramway stock. werkspoor also built a lot of new locomotives and carriages for the dutch railroads. orders were often shared with beijnes in haarlem and allan of rotterdam. with the independence of indonesia werkspoor lost a big market for its railway products. in 1951 this was temporarily compensated by a big order of 90 locomotives and 400 carriages from argentina. it created work for seven years, and drove the number of employees to 5,000. by 1968 werkspoor had so much work (e.g. plan v for the dutch railways, and a big series of trams for amsterdam), that it forwarded work to the german company düwag. nevertheless, the long term perspective for the rolling stock division was not bright, because it only delivered to the dutch market. in 1972 the division was closed.