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Third British victim of Lisbon funicular crash was ‘transport enthusiast’

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The third Briton who was killed in the Lisbon funicular crash has been named by police.

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Andrew David Kenneth Young, 82, was among 16 people who died when the tourist attraction derailed in the centre of the Portuguese capital on Wednesday.

The two other Britons who lost their lives have previously been named as theatre director Kayleigh Smith, 36, and her partner Will Nelson, a 44-year-old lecturer at Manchester’s Arden School of Theatre.

Authorities have said the likely cause of the crash was an issue with a cable which connected the streetcar’s two cabins.

The Gloria funicular, which is 140 years old, was packed with passengers when it came off the rails, and 21 people were injured in the tragedy, including five seriously.

Mr Young, also known as Dave, was from Holyhead in Wales, and had a long career as a customs officer, according to his family.

They said in a statement released by North Wales Police: “A lifelong transport enthusiast, in retirement, he enjoyed visiting heritage railways and tramways around the world.

“It is a comfort to his sons, their mother, and his brothers that his final moments were in pursuit of the hobby which gave him so much happiness.”

The funicular features two separate yellow carriages which travel between Restauradores Square in central Lisbon and the Bairro Alto area, with journeys taking three minutes. It is electrified and uses steel cables.

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The derailment resulted in one of the carriages crashing into a building at a bend in a road.

In its first investigative report into the crash, Portugal’s Office for Air and Rail Accident Investigations said on Saturday the cabins had travelled “not more than about six metres” when they “suddenly lost the balancing force provided by the cable connecting them”.

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The report stated: “Cabin No. 2 suddenly reversed, its movement halting approximately 10 meters beyond due to its partial excursion past the end of the track and the burial of the underside of the trambolho (trolley) at the end of the cable trench.

“Cabin No. 1, at the top of Calcada da Gloria, continued its downward movement, increasing its speed.

“The cabin’s brakeman immediately applied the pneumatic brake and the hand brake to try to halt the movement. These actions had no effect in stopping or reducing the cabin’s speed, and it continued accelerating down the slope.”

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An examination of the wreckage showed “the connecting cable had given way” at the attachment point to the cabin at the top of the hill, the report added.

Also among the dead were five Portuguese nationals, two Canadians, two South Koreans, one American, one French, one Swiss and one Ukrainian.

A preliminary and final report are expected to be published later.

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