JORDAN-Hedjaz Railway (JHR) has revealed plans for a potential new rail link. The line would extend from Zarqa City, northeast of the capital Amman, to Queen Alia International Airport, 30km south of Amman. JHR estimates the new railway would carry between 40,000 and 50,000 passengers each day.
No timescale or costings have been revealed. Speaking to Jordan’s Public Services and Transportation Committee on January 17, the director general of JHR, Mr Zahi Khalil, noted that the railway company is financially self-sufficient, generating its own income from investments and completed projects.
JHR runs passenger and freight trains on the 1300km line between Amman in Jordan and Damascus in Syria. The line is one of the remaining parts of a much larger 1050mm-gauge Hedjaz Railway network that contracted after the Second World War.
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