Gudmund Hoel (25 September 1877 – 7 September 1956) was a Norwegian architect. He is regarded as the second-most influential railway architect in Norway, after

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Biography

He was born in

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, Norway. Hoel graduated from Kristiania Tekniske Skole (today

Oslo University College Oslo University College ( no, Høgskolen i Oslo; HiO) was the largest state university college in Norway from 1994 to 2011, with more than 18,000 students and approximately 1800 employees.

) in 1896. For six years he had various assistant jobs at architecture firms in

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and

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. From 1903-04, he conducted study trips to the

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. In 1904, he started working for Holger Sinding-Larsen, and in 1910 he established his own firm. In 1913, he was appointed director of the newly established

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, an in-house division of the

Norwegian State Railways Vygruppen, branded as Vy, is a government-owned railway company which operates most passenger train services and many bus services in Norway. The company is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport. Its sub-brands include Vy Buss coach s ...

. He remained director there until he retired in 1947. His early works were mostly in

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, but from the 1920s he started designing in neoclassicism.

Selected works

* Gulskogen Station on Randsfjordbanen (1915) * Tønsberg Station on

Vestfoldbanen The Vestfold Line ( no, Vestfoldbanen) is a railway line which runs between Drammen and Eidanger in Norway. The line connects to the Drammen Line at the northern terminus at Drammen Station and continues as the Bratsberg Line past Skien Stati ...

(1915) * Kragerø Station on Kragerøbanen(1927) * Arendal Station on

Arendalsbanen The Arendal Line ( no, Arendalsbanen) is a long railway line between Arendal and Simonstad in Norway. At Nelaug, north of Arendal, the line intersects with the Sørland Line. The southern section is electrified and provides a feeder passenger s ...

(1930) *

Lillestrøm Station Lillestrøm Station ( no, Lillestrøm stasjon) is a railway station serving the town of Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway. Located on the Gardermoen Line and the Trunk Line as well as being the western terminus of the Kongsvinger Line, it is the ma ...

Gardermobanen The Gardermoen Line ( no, Gardermobanen) is a high-speed railway line between Oslo and Eidsvoll, Norway, running past Lillestrøm and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. The line is long and replaced the older Hoved Line as the main line north-east of Os ...

(built 1930, opened in 1934)

References

Other sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoel, Gudmund Architects from Oslo Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996) people People from Kragerø 1877 births 1956 deaths Norwegian railway architects