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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 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 Slitheen. (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)
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 lifts at New New York Hospital 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)
On other worlds
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)