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Zarqa

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Just north of Zarqa, the route had been dropped from street level (where a busy market had spilled over the tracks) into a gated and fully floodlit tunnel deliberately built wide enough to accommodate 2 standard gauge tracks. It was opened in early 2011, just after regular services had ceased.