Saul Goodman

Railway Heritage Curator · A Career in Tickets · Manchester

saul.goodman@example.com 0161 555 0342 saulgoodman.example.com Manchester, UK

Collector's Note

I curate railway heritage collections and have catalogued over 41,000 Edmondson tickets across 3 museum archives. In 12 years I have planned 9 public exhibitions, secured £480k in heritage grants, and trained 26 volunteers in conservation handling. I still date-stamp my own to-do list on a 1953 press.

Mounted Positions, 2012 to Present

No 04172

First Class · Senior Curator Fare 7/6

Deansgate ➤ Head Office

Pennine Rail Heritage Trust, Manchester

Lead a collection of 148,000 objects with a team of 5 staff and 26 volunteers.
Secured a £310k lottery grant for the 2024 signalling gallery, opened 6 weeks early.
Raised annual visitor numbers from 62,000 to 91,000 over 3 seasons.

19 MAR 2019 – PRESENT

No 03958

Second Class · Curator Fare 5/3

Carriage Shed ➤ Gallery Floor

Calder Valley Railway Museum, Halifax

Catalogued 18,400 paper items, including a complete 1921 Edmondson rack.
Built the museum's first digital index, cutting object retrieval time from 2 days to 20 minutes.
Ran 34 school workshops reaching roughly 1,100 pupils a year.

02 JUN 2015 – 15 MAR 2019

No 03514

Third Class · Asst Curator Fare 2/9

Archive Store ➤ Reading Room

Irwell & District Transport Archive, Salford

Rehoused 9,600 tickets and 740 timetables into acid-free storage in 14 months.
Answered around 300 public research enquiries a year with a 5-day turnaround.

08 SEP 2013 – 29 MAY 2015

No 03102

Platform · Trainee Fare 1/2

Booking Hall ➤ Archive Store

Greater Northern Steam Society, Bury

Sorted a 22-crate donation of station paperwork into 61 catalogued series.
Staffed the booking office replica on 40 running days, issuing 6,200 souvenir tickets.

14 APR 2012 – 30 AUG 2013

Supplementary Issues

EDU 01

Education Return

Student ➤ Graduate

MA Museum Studies, University of Wexford Vale, 2012. Dissertation on ticket-office ephemera, graded distinction.

BA History, Aldgate Metropolitan University, 2010. 2:1 honours.

ISSUED 2008 – 2012

SKL 02

Skills & Methods All Lines

Store ➤ Gallery

Paper conservation Spectrum 5.1 Modes Complete Grant writing Exhibition design Volunteer training Oral history

VALID UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

PUB 03

Publications 2/6

Desk ➤ Print

"The Green Card to Blackpool: Excursion Tickets 1930–1955", Journal of Transport Ephemera, 2023.
"Cataloguing at Card Scale", Museums Quarterly Review, 2021.

STAMPED 2021 · 2023

MEM 04

Memberships Season

Member ➤ Fellow

Associate, Museums Association, since 2016.
Committee member, Transport Ticket Society (fictional branch), since 2018.

RENEWED 05 JAN 2026