The crash of a popular funicular railway car in Lisbon will go down as one of the worst public transit accidents in Portugal's history. Sixteen people were killed and 21 injured, including a Canadian.

Portugal observed a national day of mourning Thursday after the capital’s worst disaster in recent history, when the Gloria Funicular crashed, causing several deaths. The 19th-century streetcar is one ...

The first light over Lisbon revealed the shattered remains of the Gloria funicular, its distinctive yellow carriages in ruins after it derailed and crashed on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and ...

(CNN) — At least 16 people were killed and several injured after the carriage of a funicular – a type of railway that travels up and down steep slopes – derailed in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on ...

LISBON (Reuters) -Portuguese authorities were investigating on Thursday what caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to hurtle down a hill, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22 ...

Investigators are searching for the cause of the crash that killed 16 people, with questions focusing on a possible failure of the cable that kept the two cars in balance. By Emma Bubola and Daniela ...

A preliminary report on the accident, which killed 16, said an incorrect cable was being used for the funicular, but that it was not yet possible to know how that figured in the crash. By Jason ...

After more than a decade marked by delays, funding constraints and bureaucratic hurdles, the Malanggad Funicular Railway in Thane district was inaugurated on Sunday, promising to transform access to ...

At least 16 people were killed when a world-famous funicular railcar derailed and overturned in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday. A carriage on Glória Funicular, which connects Lisbon’s downtown near ...