The Lizza di Piastreta, also known as Monorotaia di Piastreta , was an Italian industrial monorail serving the marble quarry of Piastreta, in the Apuan Alps, and linking it to Renara, in the municipal territory of Massa, Tuscany.
The monorail was projected in 1922 by the English engineer Charles Denham, owner of the quarry of Piastreta. The line, used to carry the marble from the quarry to the valley, consisted of a single rail on wooden sleepers, on which a motorized tractor hauled a sled load. The system of the sleds was already used, for the transport of marble, also in other vie di lizza , on other trials used for the lizzatura. This was the only plant of its kind to be built, and the track was realized in the workshops of Sesto San Giovanni, near Milan.
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