A Fiddle yard or Staging yard is a collection of model railway tracks that are invisible to a viewer and allow trains to be stored and manipulated. These tracks are required to allow most model railways to be operated in a realistic manner. Whilst it is possible to have a realistic shunting yard in view, its operation is generally unreliable with models. Fiddle yards were first built by British modellers so that they could build small layouts and operate them in a realistic manner.
Trains can be rearranged by lifting them off the track and replacing them.
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