The third British victim of the Lisbon funicular crash has been identified as Andrew David Kenneth Young, an 82-year-old transport enthusiast from Holyhead, North Wales. He was among 16 people who died when the Elevador da Glória, a popular tourist attraction, derailed in the Portuguese capital on Wednesday.
A further 21 people were injured, five seriously. Portuguese authorities have said the crash was probably caused by a problem with a cable connecting the streetcar's two cabins. The first investigative report, released on Saturday, confirmed that the connecting cable had given way at the attachment point to the cabin at the top of the hill.
Young's family, in a statement issued by North Wales police, said: 'Andrew David Kenneth Young was known to most as Dave. He was raised in Auchterarder, Perthshire. He moved to Holyhead in 1980 where he had a long career as a customs officer. 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 other British victims were theatre director Kayleigh Smith, 36, and her partner Will Nelson, 44, a lecturer at Manchester's Arden School of Theatre. Also among the dead were five Portuguese nationals, two Canadians, two South Koreans, one American, one French, one Swiss and one Ukrainian.
Lisbon's city council has tasked a team of experts with designing a new mechanism to ensure the safety of the Glória funicular railway. The group will include technicians from Carris, the municipal public transport company, and experts from universities, Portugal's engineering regulatory organisation, and the national civil engineering laboratory LNEC. The council has voted to give the expert team the final say on when it is safe to resume the funicular's operation.
