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Vintage Czech Metro Underground Train Gold Medal Achievement Award
Vintage Czech Metro Underground Train Gold Medal Achievement Award
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- A rare, gold coloured metal medal with accompanying smaller lapel badge.
- Together they comprise the gold 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'
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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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