The MCL 80 (Métro Crémaillère Lyon 1980) is the

Electric Multiple Unit An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number o ...

type used on the

Lyon Metro The Lyon Metro (, ) is a rapid transit system serving Lyon Metropolis, France. First opened in 1974, it currently consists of four lines, serving 42 stations and comprising of route. Part of the Transports en Commun Lyonnais (TCL) system of pub ...

's Line C. All five trains were built by

Alstom Alstom SA () is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional ...

(then Alsthom) and

Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (German Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik; French Société Suisse pour la Construction de Locomotives et de Machines; or for both, SLM) was a railway equipment manufacturer based in Winterthur in Swi ...

(SLM) and were delivered and entered service in 1984. This train model is the only model of the Lyon Metro using

steel wheels ''Steel Wheels'' is the nineteenth U.K. and twenty-first U.S. studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 29 August 1989 in the US and on 11 September in the UK. It was the final album of new material that the band re ...

, rather than rubber tyres.

References

{{France-rail-transport-stub Lyon Metro rolling stock Electric multiple units of France 750 V DC multiple units Alstom multiple units Train-related introductions in 1984