>>974495More than a lift I'd say it's a type of shuttle. The one posted there is indeed pretty short, but they can be much longer, in my city we have three funiculars, of 736m, 758m and 1130m in length, that's about the distance between two subway stations here.
One of them, the shortest one, even has an intermediate station right above the crossing, which makes the other car have to stop as well. Pretty neat altogether.