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cliff railways

cliff railways is the plural of cliff railway.

Meaning of cliff railway

Noun

cliff railway (plural cliff railways)

  1. (UK) 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...1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514
    Synonyms:
    cliff lift

Questions about cliff railways

What is cliff railways the plural of?
Cliff railways is the plural of cliff railway.

Words near cliff railways in the dictionary

  1. cliff hangers
  2. cliff lift
  3. cliff lifts
  4. cliff notes
  5. cliff railway
  6. cliff railways
  7. cliff rose
  8. cliff roses
  9. cliff spurge
  10. cliff stonecrop
  11. cliff swallow

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