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Noun
[edit]cliff lift (plural cliff lifts)
- (transport, UK) A funicular that runs between the top and the bottom of a cliff, usually at a seaside location.
- Synonym: cliff railway
- 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:
- A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as "cliff lifts," which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.
- A vertical lift or elevator serving the same purpose at some locations.
Further reading
[edit]Saltburn Cliff Lift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
List of funicular railways on Wikipedia.Wikipedia