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Prague Metro marks 55 years since construction began

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 12:33 p.m.

This week marks exactly 55 years since the construction of Prague’s Metro began, although at the time, the plan envisaged just building a tunnel for an underground tramway. The Metro went into service eight years later, in May 1974. The first underground train with three carriages ran between nine stations on line C.