I wonder what happened to Lady Curzon. I do not mean Mary Victoria Curzon, wife of the viceroy. In addition to a rose, she also had a steam locomotive named after her. The first indigenous locomotive was built in 1895 by Ajmer Workshop (now part of North Western Railway).

This was the metre gauge F1-734, “F” signifying mixed traffic. Before that, locomotives were assembled in India, not quite made. F1-734 retired in the 1950s and you will find it housed at the National Rail Museum, cow-catcher and all. Jamalpur Locomotive Workshop, set up by East India Railway in 1862, followed ...