cliff lift

English
The cliff lift at Saltburn-by-the-Sea
The cliff lift at Broadstairs

Noun

cliff lift (plural cliff lifts)

  1. (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.
  2. A vertical lift or elevator serving the same purpose at some locations.

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