**11. Conclusions**

As described in this chapter, although the results are limited to the ballasted track of metregauge railway lines in Japan, the author dealt with natural vibration modes of the ballast layer, which will engender the phenomena of ballast deterioration, based on precise field measurement, full-scale experiments and large-scale numerical analyses based on high-performance parallel computing. These results can be summarized as described below.

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