1985 Prague Metro Underground Railway Train Metrostav Line B Stage 1 Pin Badge

A gold coloured metal badge with a 2.2cm high face and a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.

This pin badge celebrates the 1985 completion of stage 1 of the B Line (the yellow one) in Prague.

Metrostav, were created in 1971 with the sole purpose of building a modern metro system in Prague. Metrostav, the building contractors, still build the metro in Czech 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.