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Vintage Czech Metro Underground Train Bronze Medal Achievement Award

Vintage Czech Metro Underground Train Bronze Medal Achievement Award

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  • A rare, bronze coloured metal medal with accompanying smaller lapel badge.
  • Together they comprise the bronze level award for 'Outstanding Worker' in the Prague underground train, metro network.
  • The smaller pin is 2cm in diameter with a long stick pin style fastener.
  • The larger medal is 3.5cm wide by 5cm tall and has a safety clasp style fasten on the topmost section. The reverse side has the official crest of Dopravi Podnik (Public Transport) of Prague.
  • The medal text reads 'OUTSTANDING WORKER'
  • 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.

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