Montreal metro marks 59 years since it launched in 1966

Montreal metro marks 59 years since it launched in 1966

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“Tube travellers on the older railways of Europe and America will envy Montreal,” says the voiceover in a British Pathé archival newsreel marking the opening of the city’s metro system on October 14, 1966.

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