Adrian Shooter

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rdf:langString Adrian Shooter CBE FREng FIME (born November 1948) is a British transport executive. Shooter joined British Rail in 1970 as a management trainee. He became maintenance engineer at Bletchley in the mid-1970s, then depot manager at Heaton, then moved to Carlisle as area maintenance engineer. He worked on expansion projects at Bournemouth and Selhurst, before becoming area manager at St Pancras, then was involved in the establishment of Red Star Parcels and Rail Express Systems, before joining Chiltern Railways in April 1994. During the privatisation of British Rail he headed up the M40 Trains management buyout consortium that was awarded the Chiltern Railways franchise. Shooter became chairman of DB Regio UK, retiring in December 2011. As of January 2019, he was chairman of Vivarail, a company rebuilding London Underground D78 Stock and rebuilding them into Class 230s. Shooter is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Chartered Institute of Transport. He is chairman of the West Midlands and Oxfordshire region of the Confederation of British Industry, chairman of Bicester Vision, director of Wabtec, and was chair of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership for three-and-a-half years until late-2015. In 2013 Shooter became chairman of Churnet Valley Railway, and a vice-president of Railfuture. In the New Year Honours 2010 Shooter was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the rail industry". Shooter was a director of Vintage Trains from 2018 until 2020. Shooter is chairman of the Model 'A' Ford Club of Great Britain. In 2014 his Model 'A' suffered a seized bearing during a classic rally race in Myanmar. He owns the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Class 'B' steam locomotive 778 (originally No. 19), which he operates on the Beeches Light Railway in the grounds of his residence in Oxfordshire. Carriages to accompany the locomotive were commissioned from Boston Lodge works. Shooter also owns an Indian Hindustan Ambassador car, and a replica Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad 'Model T' inspection locomotive commissioned from the Statfold Barn Railway. During the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) short demonstration trips with the pure-battery Vivarail D-Train were organised from Glasgow Central station with Shooter and Henry Posner III of Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) on board. By early 2022, Shooter had been diagnosed with motor neuron disease but planned to continue driving his Darjeeling steam locomotive for long as possible.

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