Cyril Lloyd Jones

British engineers working at Hyderabad, for the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway.

Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones CIE (6 March 1881, Wandsworth, London SW–10 July 1981, Surrey, England), was an early 20th-century British railway engineer who served in India.

CIE insignia

Life

The elder son of Richard Lloyd Jones, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and the Imperial College of Science in London, before joining the Nizam's State Railways (NSR) in 1904. Becoming HEH's chief engineer in 1913, then the NSR managing director by 1930, he retired in 1941.

In 1907, Lloyd Jones married Edith Penty, a cousin of Arthur Penty, having two sons a two daughters.

Honours and awards

• CIE (1925)
  • FCGI
  • FICE

External links

• Cyril Lloyd Jones Archived 12 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• HEH the Nizam's Railway, Poosapally Gorge.
• www.ice.org.uk

Further reading

• Memoirs of Cyril Lloyd Jones: People, Society and Railways in Hyderabad, by Omar Khalidi (ISBN 978-81-85425-54-2; Publisher: South Asia Books (2010)).