cliff railway
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cliff railway
noun cliff railways
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Synonym of cliff lift (Sense 1).
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 reg
Similar: cliff lift
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