At Nijmegen central station in the Netherlands , track 1 is preceded by 35, even though the station only has a handful of tracks. I’m not making that up.
https://indebuurt.nl/nijmegen/genieten-van/mysteries/nijmeeg...
https://indebuurt.nl/nijmegen/genieten-van/mysteries/nijmeeg...
One such (obvious) exception is OK with me. Its annoying when every train station has random track numbers though.
Tracks are numbered logically or at least start out that way, but in some stations, many tracks don’t border a passenger platform (which freight trains don’t need)
If there’s a shunting yard nearby, there can be many such tracks. Looking at http://www.sporenplan.nl/html_de/sporenplan/ns/ns_65/nm.html, that may be the case for Nijmegen.
I don’t know what rules they use for renumbering tracks, but they must weigh the cost of redocumenting things and retraining personnel (likely the trickier part. Some of them may have known the track numbers for decades, so reassigning number to make them easier to learn can be risky. From a safety viewpoint, moving from 1,2,3… to A,B,C… may be a better option) against the training of future employees.