2019 Prague Metro Underground Railway Train 45th Anniversary 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 45th anniversary of the Prague metro.

Featuring the current logo of the Prague Underground railway, called the Metro, hence the M logo and the dates 1974 - 2019. This logo has been in use from 1988 onwards.

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 nádraží) 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 Kačerov 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.