cliff railway

English

Noun

cliff railway (plural cliff railways)

1. (transport, rail transport, UK) Synonym of cliff lift (Sense 1).
   • 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.