cliff railway

plural cliff railways

1. UKrail transportSynonym of cliff lift (Sense 1).

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   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.

   1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514

   Synonyms: cliff lift