"fiddle yard" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1999, Alan Postlethwaite, Odd corners of the Southern: from the days of steam, page 27",
          "text": "Such a halt would enhance any model railway, perhaps leading to a fiddle yard on the right.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Iain Rice, Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads, page 20",
          "text": "I know of a few modelers who take this concept to the ultimate by providing a dedicated cassette for each individual item of equipment; however, this requires more dedication than I'm inclined to! It also makes for a lot of high-precision work in the fiddle yard.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Richard Bardsley, Designing and Building Fiddle Yards",
          "text": "A scenic fiddle yard might seem like a contradiction in terms, since a model railway layout is generally split quite clearly into a scenic portion and a nonscenic fiddle yard. One of the arguments for hiding the fiddle yard is that it does not look as nice as the rest of the layout. The idea behind making a fiddle yard more scenic in appearance is to try to help to blend it with the rest of the layout, possibly even to make the layout seem bigger.",
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        "A section of a model railway layout that is reserved for storing and working on trains, often hidden from view."
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          "railway"
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          "working on",
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        "fiddle yard"
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          "ref": "1999, Alan Postlethwaite, Odd corners of the Southern: from the days of steam, page 27",
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          "ref": "2009, Iain Rice, Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads, page 20",
          "text": "I know of a few modelers who take this concept to the ultimate by providing a dedicated cassette for each individual item of equipment; however, this requires more dedication than I'm inclined to! It also makes for a lot of high-precision work in the fiddle yard.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Richard Bardsley, Designing and Building Fiddle Yards",
          "text": "A scenic fiddle yard might seem like a contradiction in terms, since a model railway layout is generally split quite clearly into a scenic portion and a nonscenic fiddle yard. One of the arguments for hiding the fiddle yard is that it does not look as nice as the rest of the layout. The idea behind making a fiddle yard more scenic in appearance is to try to help to blend it with the rest of the layout, possibly even to make the layout seem bigger.",
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