{"id":407966,"date":"2025-09-08T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407966\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:05:10","slug":"third-british-victim-of-lisbon-funicular-crash-was-anglesey-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407966\/","title":{"rendered":"Third British victim of Lisbon funicular crash was Anglesey man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city’s funicular railways – Gl\u00f3ria, Lavra, Bica and Gra\u00e7a – are a popular tourist attraction and known for their yellow tram-like vehicles.<\/p>\n

Officials said a cable along the railway’s route snapped<\/a>, but the rest of the mechanism was functioning properly. <\/p>\n

The brakeman tried to apply emergency brakes but failed to prevent the derailment, <\/p>\n

The cause of the crash remains unknown.<\/p>\n

Nationals of Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland, Canada, France, Britain, Ukraine and the US are among the dead, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city’s funicular railways – Gl\u00f3ria, Lavra, Bica and Gra\u00e7a – are a popular tourist attraction and known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-407966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115169062030719202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}