Modern Czech Prague Metro Underground Railway Train Capital M Logo Pin Badge

A gold coloured metal badge with a 1.8cm wide face and a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.

A silver coloured metal badge with a 1.9cm wide face and a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.

This pin badge features the new Prague metro logo, in use from 1988, in various colours. If you have a preference as to which colour you would like please let me know.

Featuring the new logo of the Prague Underground railway, called the Metro, hence the M logo. This logo was in use after 1988 and remains in use 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.