Lift

Mel and Pex find themselves trapped in a lift. (DW: Paradise Towers)

A lift was a device used to vertically transport people or goods between the levels of a building.

On Earth

In 1930, Martha, Frank and Tallulah defended the top floor of the Empire State Building from pig slaves approaching by lift as the Tenth Doctor attempted to pull off dalekanium strips from the top of the Empire State Building. (DW: Evolution of the Daleks)

In 1958, the Tenth Doctor, Cassie and Jimmy tried and failed to escape the Dreamland base through a lift. (DW: Dreamland)

In 2005, the Ninth Doctor and Rose used a lift to escape from the attacking Autons in Henrik's. (DW: Rose)

In 2006, the Ninth Doctor used a lift to escape from the Metropolitan Police Service members that had him at gunpoint. (DW: World War Three)

The Torchwood Three hub had an invisible lift to travel from the hub to the surface at Roald Dahl Plass. (TW: Everything Changes)

In 2007, the Tenth Doctor, Donna and Lance discovered the lift in H.C. Clements led to an abandoned Torchwood base not on the building's schematics. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

In 2008, Sarah Jane Smith escaped from being killed by Mrs Wormwood's people from inside a lift. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

The Tenza George was frightened by the sound of lifts, and used one to send Amy and Rory to his dollhouse. (DW: Night Terrors)

A broken lift in Colchester was used as a teleport site to the crashed Cyber Ship. (DW: Closing Time)

Mel and Pex used a lift in Paradise Towers to try and get to floor 304. However, the cleaners overrode the controls and had the lift alternate between floors 173 and 174. Pex kicked the controls and the lift plummeted down to the basement. There they managed to get it working again and made it to floor 304. (DW: Paradise Towers)

On other worlds

The lifts at New New York Hospital on New Earth disinfected their occupants, as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler experienced, much to the latter's dismay. Lady Cassandra and Chip took over the lift in order for Cassandra to take over Rose's body. (DW: New Earth)

In the Dalek City on Skaro, the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan escaped from their imprisonment by the Daleks in a lift. They then threw a sculpture down the shaft to destroy the lift and the pursuing Daleks. (DW: The Daleks)

The lifts inside Kaalann on Skaro were broken down before the Daleks returned to the planet with the Eye of Time and rebuilt their race. This was undone when the Eleventh Doctor and Amy travelled through the Eye and stopped the Daleks before they could harness the Eye. (VG: City of the Daleks)

Spaceships and space stations

In 200,000, the Editor of Satellite Five granted the Ninth Doctor and Rose access to the five hundredth floor to trap them. (DW: The Long Game)

The Doctor's TARDIS had a lift leading to at least three floors. (VG: TARDIS)