Patent ID: 7802523

Claim:
A cable railway system, comprising: at least two stations and at least one carrying and conveying cable extending between said stations and guided at said stations by way of deflection pulleys, said pulleys including at least one driven pulley; vehicles configured to transport passengers along said carrying and conveying cable between said stations and guided through said stations so that the passengers may board or disembark from respective said vehicles in said stations; at least one detector device associated with said vehicles and effective along a travel section of the cable railway system between said stations, for detecting and measuring a distance of respective said vehicles from said detector device and a pendulum movement of said vehicles transversely to a direction of movement of said vehicles; said detector device outputting output signals to a control device of a drive of the cable railway system, wherein said control device is configured to control the drive of the cable railway system in dependence on an extent of the pendulum movement of said vehicles and the distance of said vehicles as measured by said detector device.