"After a comprehensive six-month investigation" ..... Got it Alex!
Yes it's at the DPP Central Workshops at Hostivař, a vast complex of tram,
bus and metro workshops and/or depots stretching from left to right across
this aerial. The sidings referred at are at the far left.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Prague,+Czechia/@50.0827323,14.5258574,1080a,35y,187.14h,44.69t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x470b939c0970798b:0x400af0f66164090!8m2!3d50.0755381!4d14.4378005
A lot has changed since I visited the tram workshops, so not surprising I
didn't recognise it, being the location of the old workshop buildings when
I was there in 2009. A huge new tram workshop has been built opposite and
Škoda Transportation has the maintenance contract for the trams (and metro
fleet too iirc). I see that there is a big new bus workshops and depot here
too. There are both tram and metro route termini on this site too. The tram
workshops also do contract work for other systems across Europe, including
rebuidling trams. It's not uncommon to see trams from German systems here.
To keep it relevant to home, a few km to the NE, right on the rural
boundary of the City of Prague and the Central Bohemia Region, is the
factory of DPP's subsidiary company, Prague Engineering, which has
manufactured special work for Melbourne. If you zoom in, you see tracks
laid out in the yard.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/133,+Mladoboleslavsk%C3%A1+9,+190+17+Praha-Vino%C5%99,+Czechia/@50.1494538,14.5924398,372a,35y,44.9t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x470bed98660eaa03:0x6759b456fc7018c6!8m2!3d50.1431026!4d14.5787534
Tony P
On Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 8:36:04 PM UTC+10 Alex Cowie wrote:
> I think I have identified the location of the Prague trams coronavirus
> video that Mark posted in April 2020. Today I was exploring parts of the
> Prague tram network on Google Earth and was locating the depots and
> workshops with the help of the track plan that you had posted. Looking at
> the vicinity of the tram workshops (Opravny Tramvají, lat: 50.072120 lon:
> 14.531745 ) I noticed a multiroad open stabling area on the eastern side of
> the workshops with a motley collection of about 50 trams. By default
> Google Earth displays imagery from 30 Jun 2019. Historic imagery from 2018
> shows the site as a grassed area. By March 2020 a new building had been
> completed on the north side of the yard which seems to match the buiding on
> the left of the video. The track layout of the yard with a single track
> feeding into the curved fan also seems to match the video.
>
> When I looked at the imagery of Hloubětín tram depot (lat: 50.108586
> lon:14.530043) in GEarth I saw that the concrete roof of the depot was in a
> collapsed state! A Google search revealed that the structure had been in
> poor condition and that the roof was demolished with explosives in August
> 2019. I understand that it is intended to replace the depot complex. I am
> wondering whether the stabling yard at the Workshops was constructed to
> accomodate trams displaced from Hloubětín. Recent imagery of Hloubětín
> shows trams stabled in the fan at the front of the demolished depot!
>
> Alex C
>
> On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 8:13:51 AM UTC+9:30 TP wrote:
>
>> I wonder where this is Mark? All of the depots are covered. I can't see
>> any outdoor marshalling yards with this many tracks in this 2013 plan or in
>> aerials of any of the depots or workshops:
>>
>> http://www.doprava.unas.cz/schemata/kolejova/cz/praha_ed.pdf
>>
>> Something new since 2013? The stanchions look new.
>>
>> Tony P
>>
>