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Ken Hoole

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Ken Hoole (1916–1988) was an English historian known for his works on the railways of the north east of England.

The Ken Hoole Study Centre at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, and the Ken Hoole Trust are named after him.

Biography

Ken Hoole was born in Doncaster in 1916. A railway interest was kindled by daily journeys by train to school in Kingston upon Hull from his home in Bridlington, Yorkshire.{{citation| url = http://www.darlington.gov.uk/Leisure/headofsteam/collections/ourcollections.htm| title = Our Collections – Ken Hoole collection | first = Colin|last= Foster| work= www.darlington.gov.uk| at = Who was Ken Hoole? |access-date=30 June 2014}}{{citation| url = http://www.steamindex.com/library/hoole.htm| title = Ken Hoole: historian of North Eastern Railway| work = www.steamindex.com|access-date=10 June 2012}} He served in radio security during the Second World War. In civilian life his interest led to him becoming a full-time writer on railway history, eventually authoring over 40 books.{{citation| url = http://www.darlington.gov.uk/Leisure/headofsteam/collections/ourcollections.htm| first = Colin| last = Foster| title = Who was Ken Hoole?| work = www.darlington.gov.uk|access-date=10 June 2012}}

He was a founder of the North Eastern Railway Association (NERA), and of the Scarborough Railway Society.{{citation| url = http://www.scarboroughrailwaysociety.org.uk/Gallery1.html| title = Society History| publisher=Scarborough Railway Society|access-date=10 June 2012}} Latterly, Hoole lived at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He died on 27 December 1988.{{cite book |last=Earnshaw |first=Alan |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 5 |year=1989 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Penryn |isbn=0-906899-35-4 |page=2 }}

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Works and legacy

Ken Hoole published over forty books as well as numerous magazine articles.

The study centre, The Ken Hoole Study Centre, opened 1992, at the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum (now Head of Steam museum) in Darlington, inheriting its core collection from a bequeathal from Ken Hoole's archive, as well as including the library of the NERA.{{citation| url = http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/nera/page2.phtml| title = The Ken Hoole Study Centre| work = www.communigate.co.uk| access-date = 10 June 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130106061509/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/nera/page2.phtml| archive-date = 6 January 2013| url-status = dead}}{{citation| url = http://www.darlington.gov.uk/Leisure/headofsteam/about/about.htm| title = About Head of Steam| work = www.darlington.gov.uk|access-date=10 June 2012}} The Ken Hoole trust, established in his memory, helps fund projects relating to railway history and heritage.Sources:

  • {{citation| url=https://sites.google.com/site/northeasternrailwayassoc/research-information/ner-milepost-york-station|title = NER Milepost York Station| publisher = NERA| quote = The Railway Heritage Trust has made a major contribution to the cost of the replica Zero Post and plaque. The Ken Hoole Trust, in memory of the late Ken Hoole, the distinguished authority on matters relating to the North Eastern Railway, has also made a significant contribution|access-date=10 June 2012}}
  • {{citation| url=http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/gazette-communities/2011/11/04/railway-history-preserved-at-head-of-steam-museum-84229-29712313/| title = Railway history preserved at Head of Steam museum| date = 4 November 2011| work = Gazette Live|access-date=10 June 2012}}
  • {{citation| url =http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9131434.Volunteers_restore_first_electric_Autocar/| title = Volunteers restore first electric Autocar| date = 9 July 2011| work = The Press|location=York|access-date=10 June 2012}}
  • {{citation| url = http://beamishtransport.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/chaldron-waggon-restoration-project.html| title = Chaldron Waggon Restoration Project announced!| date = 3 December 2009| work = beamishtransport.blogspot.co.uk| publisher = Beamish Museum|access-date=10 June 2012}}

=Published works=

In addition to his own works, he also wrote forewords for, corrected and updated reprints of several historic works including William Weaver Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway, G.G. MacTurk's A history of the Hull railways, and George David Parker's The Hull and Barnsley Railway. He also edited the first volume of the two volume The Hull and Barnsley Railway (1972).

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  • {{cite book| title=A regional history of the railways of Great Britain. Vol 4, The North East| year = 1965|edition =1|publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=The North-Eastern Atlantics| year = 1965|publisher =Roundhouse Books| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=North East England| year =1965 |publisher =David and Charles, Macdonald and Co| author = Ken Hoole |edition=1

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}}, 3 editions, 2nd 1968, 3rd 1973

  • {{cite book| title=North Road locomotive works, Darlington, 1863–1966| year = 1967|publisher =Roundhouse Books| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=Railway history in pictures : north-east England. | year = 1969|publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern Railway buses, lorries &autocars| year = 1969|publisher = Midd Valley Narrow Gauge Railways Ltd | author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern Railway: diagrams of snow ploughs | year =1969 |publisher = Nidd Valley Narrow Gauge Railways Ltd for the North Eastern Railway Association| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=095002953X

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern Railway locomotive stock as at 31.12.20| year = 1969|publisher = Nidd Valley Narrow Gauge Railways| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways in Cleveland| year = 1971|publisher = Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852061315

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern locomotive sheds| year = 1972|publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0715353233

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  • {{cite book| title=The Stainmore railway| year = 1973|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852062028

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  • {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/northeastengland0000hool| title=Forgotten Railways: North East England| year=1973| publisher=David and Charles| author=Ken Hoole| isbn=0715358944| author-mask=1| url-access=registration}}
  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern album| year =1974 |publisher =Allan| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=071100563X

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways in the Yorkshire Dales| year = 1975|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0852062931

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  • {{cite book| title=The Stockton and Darlington Railway| year =1975 |publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0715367706

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  • {{cite book| title=The railways of York| year =1976 |publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852063377

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways in Yorkshire. 2, East Riding| year = 1976|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852063563

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways in Yorkshire. 3, North Riding| year = 1977|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0852064187

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  • {{cite book| title=The Story of North Road Station Railway Museum, Darlington| year = 1977|publisher =North Road Station Railway Museum| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title= Railways in Yorkshire : a pictorial history | year =1977 |publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=The East Coast main line since 1925| year = 1977|publisher =Ian Allan| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0711007802

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern branch lines since 1925| year =1978 |publisher =I. Allan| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0711008299

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern stations : a photographic recollection| year = 1978|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852064640

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways in the North Eastern landscape| year =1978 |publisher =Branch Line| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0855270756

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  • {{cite book| title=Branch line trains in the North-East : a pictorial survey| year =1979 |publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852065108

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  • {{cite book| title= Branch line trains in the North-East : a pictorial survey | year = 1979|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0852065108

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  • {{cite book| title=The 4-4-0 classes of the North Eastern Railway| year = 1979|publisher =I Allan| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 071100921X

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  • {{cite book| title=The North East Railway book| year = 1979|publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0715376837

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  • {{cite book| title=The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway| year = 1981|publisher = Nelson| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0860670651

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  • {{cite book |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 3 |year=1982 |publisher=Atlantic Books |author=Ken Hoole |isbn=0-906899-05-2 |location=Redruth

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  • {{cite book |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4 |year=1983 |publisher=Atlantic Books |author=Ken Hoole |isbn=0-906899-07-9 |location=Truro

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways of Teesside a pictorial history| year =1982 |publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=085206683X

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways of Tyneside a pictorial history | year =1983 |publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852067550

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  • {{cite book| url = https://archive.org/details/railwaysofnorthy0000hool| title = Railways of the North York Moors : a pictorial history| year = 1983| publisher = Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn = 0852067313| author-mask = 1| url-access = registration}}
  • {{cite book| title=Rail centres, York| year = 1983|publisher =Ian Allan| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0711013209

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  • {{cite book| title=North-Eastern branch lines (past and present)| year = 1984|publisher =Oxford Publishing Company| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0860931897

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  • {{cite book| title=North-eastern branch line termini | year =1985 |publisher =Oxford Publishing| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0860932192

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways in the Yorkshire Dales : a pictorial history| year =1985 |publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0852068263

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  • {{cite book| title=Railways of East Durham : a pictorial history| year = 1985|publisher =Dalesman| author = Ken Hoole

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  • {{cite book| title=Railway stations of the North East | year =1985|publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0715385275

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  • {{cite book| title=Railway stations of the North East| year = 1985|publisher =David and Charles| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0715385275

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  • {{cite book| title=Rail centres : Newcastle| year = 1986|publisher =Ian Allan| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 1901945189

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  • {{cite book| title=The North Eastern electrics : the history of the Tyneside electric passenger services (1904–1967)| year =1987 |publisher =Oakwood Press| author = Ken Hoole| isbn=0853613583

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  • {{cite book| title=The electric locomotives of the North Eastern Railway| year = 1988|publisher =Oakwood Press| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0853613672

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  • {{cite book| title=An illustrated history of North Eastern Railway locomotives| year =1988|publisher =Haynes| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0860933237

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  • {{cite book| title=The Illustrated History of East Coast Joint Stock| year =1993| author = Ken Hoole| isbn= 0860934306

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;As co-author

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  • {{cite book| title=North Eastern Railway historical maps| year =1975 |publisher =Railway and Canal Historical Society| first = R.A.|last= Cook|first2 = Ken| last2= Hoole| isbn= 0901461105}}
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  • {{cite book |last1=Fry |first1=E.V. |last2=Hoole |first2=Ken |last3=Manners |first3=F. |last4=Neve |first4=E. |last5=Proud |first5=P. |last6=Yeadon |first6=W.B. |author-link6=Willie Yeadon |editor-last=Fry |editor-first=E.V. |title=Locomotives of the L.N.E.R., part 3C: Tender Engines – Classes D13 to D24 |date=August 1981 |publisher=RCTS |location=Kenilworth |isbn=0-901115-52-5 }}
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  • {{cite book |last1=Boddy |first1=M.G. |last2=Fry |first2=E.V. |last3=Hennigan |first3=W. |last4=Hoole |first4=Ken |last5=Yeadon |first5=W.B. |author-link5=Willie Yeadon |editor-last=Fry |editor-first=E.V. |title=Locomotives of the L.N.E.R., part 10A: Departmental Stock, Locomotive Sheds, Boiler and Tender Numbering |date=November 1988 |publisher=RCTS |location=Lincoln |isbn=0-901115-65-7 }}
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See also

  • Willie Yeadon, railway historian known for accounts of LNER locomotives

References

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Category:20th-century English historians