Ever since the first steam locomotive came to India, we have had an enduring romance with the railway. The iron devil, as the locomotive is called, conjures up visions of a black engine chugging through green fields with smoke billowing from its chimney, trailed by a string of red carriages. The railway as we know it today is the combination of the steam loco and the metal rails. Even though France and England were experimenting on steam engines in the 1770s, a ...
