The Prague metro started operating fifty years ago, on 9 May 1974. Prague therefore became the forty-fourth city in the world to operate an underground railway, changing its face forever. The metro became an inseparable part of life in Prague (approximately one million people travel underground every day) and later became its pride and joy. Here you can see several important moments, remarkable details and the vision of the Prague metro’s future on ten panels.

What it might have looked like

It’s going to be built! But how?

Build, build, build!

The C Line Was First

C Line Goes Further

The A Line Was Second

A Line Grows and Becomes Independent

Three Is the Magic Number: The B Line

B Line Barely Made It

That’s How We Were

Metro Cars – Various Types

A Sign of Change

What Nobody Expected

What Happens Next?

Automation Will Be Used

Construction Technology for the Prague Metro

Builders of the Prague Metro

At the Beginning Was a Drawing Board, at the End is the Metro
