Adrian Shooter

Adrian Shooter
Shooter in 2014
Born
Adrian Shooter

(1948-11-22)22 November 1948
London, England
Died13 December 2022(2022-12-13) (aged 74)
Switzerland
Occupations
Years active1970–2022
Spouses
Diana Crombie
(m. 1970; div. 2002)
Barbara Harding
(m. 2006)
Parents

Adrian Shooter CBE FREng FIMechE FCILT (22 November 1948 – 13 December 2022) was a British transport executive.

He is best known for leading the newly privatised Chiltern Railways between 1996 and 2011, and for founding the Vivarail engineering company in 2012. A lifelong railway enthusiast, he had many other involvements with railways, both commercial and preserved, including the Ffestiniog Railway, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and his own Beeches Light Railway.

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