Fiddle yard

A storage area outside the visible part of the layout where trains are assembled, swapped or removed by hand.

Dutch

fiddleyard

German

Fiddleyard

Articles using this term

• Analogue or digital control?
• Sectional track or flexible track: which should you choose?
• The helix: gaining height in little space
• The double slip: when you need one
• Train runs jerkily: dirty track or wheels
• Passing loop: how two trains pass each other
• Piko A-Gleis or Roco geoLine: the differences side by side
• Hidden staging and fiddle yards: trains out of sight
• Roco geoLine or Roco Line: the differences side by side
• The dogbone: a long run on a narrow baseboard
• The reversing loop: how it works and how to avoid a short circuit
• Märklin C track or Märklin K track: the differences side by side

See also

• Staging yard
• Shelf layout
• Module