1980 Prague Metro Line C Phase II Extension Underground Railway Train Pin Badge

A gold coloured metal badge with a 2.3cm wide face and a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.

This pin badge celebrates the 1980 completion of the phase II extension to the red line C.

Featuring the old logo of the Prague Underground railway, called the Metro, hence the M logo. This logo was in use from 1974 to 1988 whereupon it changed to the modernised version of today.

The first stage of the metro under Prague was completed in 1974 and today it has three lines and carries over 500 million passengers a year.

In the early 1960s the concept of the sub-surface tramway was accepted and building of the first station (Hlavni nadrazi) started in 1967. However the Soviet Union suggested a fully functioning metro system might be a better solution than an underground tramway.

Regular services of the first section of line C began operating in May 1974 between Florenc and Kacerov stations.
In 1978 the first section of line A was opened and, finally, line B opened in 1985, thus forming a triangle with three crossing points.

Every few subsequent years the tracks are extended further from the center and there are now plans for a forth line.