Funicular Driven by a Cable with Two Towing Sections and Method for Controlling Such a Funicular

A funicular comprising an upstream station, a downstream station, a track, preferably a railway, connecting the upstream station to the downstream station, a vehicle running on the track, wherein it comprises at least one towing cable in closed loop having a first towing section passing over a first pulley of the upstream station and over a first return pulley fixed to the vehicle, a second towing section, in all ways separate from the first towing section and passing over the first return pulley and over a second pulley of the upstream station, a first linking section towed between the first pulley of the upstream station and a first pulley of the downstream station, a second linking section towed between the second pulley of the upstream station and a second pulley of the downstream station, a first return section towed between the first pulley of the downstream station and a second return pulley situated on the vehicle and a second return section towed between the second pulley of the downstream station and the second return pulley.