Rail transport in Jordan

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Jordan has a total of 507 km of narrow gauge railways (1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in)) as of 2008.

Railway companies in Jordan are:

• Hedjaz Jordan Railway, a direct descendant of the Ottoman Hejaz railway: The only passenger railway currently operating in Jordan, connecting Amman to Damascus in Syria, and passing through Zarqa and Mafraq. It is narrow gauge; the rest of the Syrian network uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge.
• Aqaba Railway Corporation transporting phosphates to the port of Aqaba