Rail transport in Jordan

Rail transport in Jordan is coordinated by the Hedjaz Jordan Railway, a direct descendant of the Ottoman Hejaz railway. The Aqaba Railway Corporation transported phosphates to the port of Aqaba until its closure in 2018. Jordan has a total of 507 km of narrow gauge railways (1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in)) as of 2008.

The Hedjaz Jordan Railway is 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.

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