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It took seven years and more than $2 billion, and on Sunday the first new métro cars in 40 years opened to passengers.

The new trains, called AZUR, are expected to be rolled out over the course of 18 months. The first train departed Sunday morning from the Henri-Bourassa métro station.

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Over the next year and a half, 468 métro cars are due to be delivered. They’ll run on the Orange Line first, then move to the Blue Line, with only a few of the newcars on the Green Line. The MR-73 model of trains on the Orange and Blue Lines will be transferred to the Green Line, allowing the STM to retire the old MR-63 cars — the subway system’s oldest — currently serving that line.

Here’s a recap of what we know so far about the new trains:

What’s in a name?

The trains, ordered in 2010, were initially called MPM-10 — short for matériel pneumatique de Montréal. However, the STM wanted to give the new train models a more creative name. It launched a public contest, and received 6,000 suggestions. The name AZUR was chosen in a public vote.