Staging yard

A hidden group of storage tracks, often below or behind the layout, where complete trains wait until they run back into view.

Dutch

schaduwstation

German

Schattenbahnhof

Articles using this term

• DCC and Märklin Motorola: digital protocols
• Analogue or digital control?
• The right height for your model railway
• The helix: gaining height in little space
• The double slip: when you need one
• Passing loop: how two trains pass each other
• Hidden staging and fiddle yards: trains out of sight
• The dogbone: a long run on a narrow baseboard
• Märklin C track or Märklin K track: the differences side by side

See also

• Fiddle yard
• Helix
• Siding