Coiley, John

found: Penguin Random House Higher Education, June 3, 2022(John Coiley; John Coiley was the curator of the National Railway Museum in York from its foundation in the 1970s until his retirement in 1992; from 1983 to 1986, he was the president of the International Association of Transport Museums; he died in 1998; the John Coiley Award for locomotive preservation is given by the Heritage Railway Association; books he wrote include DK Eyewitness: Train and Rocket to Eurostar: National Railway Museum in Camera)

found: Wikipedia, June 3, 2022(John Coiley; John Arthur Coiley (1932-1998) was an English museum curator, principally associated with the National Railway Museum in York from its formation in the 1973-5 period, through to his retirement as keeper of the museum in 1992; Coiley was born in West Norwood, London, and educated at Beckenham and Penge County Grammar School and later at Selwyn College, Cambridge, graduating in 1954; he was awarded a Ph. D. in 1959 in the field of electron microscopy; Coiley's early career was outside the museum sector, working first for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and later for two private research institutions; he joined the Science Museum in 1973 and--probably in part as a result of a lifelong interest in railway history, which included photographic contributions to Images of Steam, a 1968 publication--was appointed the first keeper of the National Railway Museum in 1974; Coiley died at Chur railway station, Switzerland on 22 May 1998 while on a rail tour)