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The railway station turned Zarqa into an important hub. On 10 April 1905, the Ottoman governor issued a decree that allowed the Chechen immigrants to own the land they had settled on. The population then quickly grew in size. On 18 November 1928, the new Jordanian government issued a decree to establish the first municipal council for Zarqa.
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.
The Amman-Zarqa Bus Rapid Transit (Arabic: الباص السريع بين عمان والزرقاء) is a project to address the transportation issues within and between two of the biggest Jordanian cities, the capital Amman and the nearby industrial city of Zarqa. [1] The project cost around 153 million dinars and began operations on 15 May ...
An exhibit on the railway's cultural heritage opened in 2019 at Darat al-Funun in Amman. [24] As of 2006, there is a small railway museum at the station in Mada'in Saleh in Saudi Arabia [25] and a larger project in the "Hejaz Railway Museum" in Medina, which opened in 2006. [26]
The HJR operated the line of the Hedjaz railway in the Emirate of Transjordan. When Jordan became independent in 1946, the railway served as the state railway of Jordan, though it was not owned by the state. In 1975 the HJR built a line branch line from Ma'an to Aqaba, a port city. The line was later sold to the Aqaba Railway Corporation in 1979.
The Haifa station was the only railway station in the world serving the lines of 3 continents—Africa and Europe (by the coastal railway), and Asia (by the Hejaz railway). This station lost some of its importance in 1937 when, under the British Mandate, a new one was built closer to what was then the main hub of the city—its port.
The Zarqa River (Arabic: نهر الزرقاء, Nahr az-Zarqāʾ, lit. "the River of the Blue [City]") is the second largest tributary of the lower Jordan River, after the Yarmouk River. It is the third largest river in the region by annual discharge and its watershed encompasses the most densely populated areas east of the Jordan River.
It is on the grounds [2] of the restored [3] historic Ottoman railway station at Medina, locally called استسيون "Istasyōn" (Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ɪs.tas.ˈjoːn]), including a stretch of the historic track and a train shed [4] with originally four tracks.