005 - Prague, Czechia: Hlubočepy to Sídliště Barrandov - a truly modern tramway

Until the early twenty first century, the Prague tram network terminated at Hlubočepy - a village that seems to have survived from another era and is very beautiful around the banks of the Vltava river.
The tramway was extended on some massive works of engineering to the new housing development at Barrandov terminating at a huge turning circle know as Sídliště Barrandov (Barrandov Estate).
During the course of the building, very modern designs were realised for each tram station with a coloured theme at each station along the line.
The start and finish of the line wear a white theme at Hlubočepy and Sídliště Barrandov with intermediate stops at Geologická (yellow), K Barrandovu (blue), Chaplinovo náměstí (red) and Poliklinika Barrandov (green).
During the spring and summer of 2020 the entire line has been relaid and, at
Sídliště Barrandov, a new junction has been created that heralds the beginning of a 5km extension (to be completed in 2022) to Holyně and Slivenec, part of the rapid expansion of housing in this satellite of Prague.
Work is now completed on the section between Hlubočepy and Sídliště Barrandov and, in order to facilitate the reconstruction of the line between Smíchovské nádraží and Lihovar and the adjacent railway bridge, a batch of Tatra T6 and Tatra T3R.PLF (low floor centre section) trams has been outstationed at Sídliště Barrandov where an coverable inspection pit has been sunk into the outer circle and a redudant Tatra T6 tram has been parked (off the track) to provide a stores for the trams working the line between there and Hlubočepy. A replacement bus service operates, until 30th October 2020 been Hlubočepy and Smíchovské nádraží.
It is indicative of the very forward thinking Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy ac (the bus and tram company in Prague) that the tramway is kept in pristine condition with a modern fleet of tramcars.