Adrian Shooter

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Adrian Shooter

Adrian Shooter , CBE , FREng , FIMechE (born November 1948 in London ) is a British entrepreneur and director of a railway company.

Life

Shooter was the first son of Reginald Arthur Shooter, (1916-2013) and his wife Jean (nee Wallace). He began his career in the 1970s as a trainee with British Rail . During the privatization of British Rail, he was Chairman of the M40 Trains Management Buy-out Consortium, which later became Chiltern Railways . Shooter became Chairman of DB Regio UK Ltd and retired from Chiltern and DB Regio in December 2011. He is currently (2011) Chairman of Vivarail , a company aiming to modernize London Underground D78 Stock and convert them to diesel railcars upgrade.

Shooter is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering , the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the Chartered Institute of Transport . He is Chairman of the West Midlands and Oxfordshire Regions of the Confederation of British Industry , Chairman of Bicester Vision, Director of Wabtec , and was Chairman of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership for 3½ years until the end of 2015 .

In 2013 Shooter became Chairman of Moorland and City Railways , and one of the Vice Presidents of Railfuture along with Lord Adonis , Chris Green , Roger Ford and Barry Doe . In 2010 Shooter was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the rail industry .

Varia

Adrian Shooter's steam locomotive on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Adrian Shooter's 'Ford Model T' draisine

Shooter is chairman of the British Model 'A' Ford Club. He is the owner of a class DHR 778 (originally No. 19) steam locomotive on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway , which he operates on the Beeches Light Railway on his estate in Steeple Aston , Oxfordshire . The corresponding wagons were procured from the Ffestiniog Railway . Shooter owns an Indian Hindustan Ambassador and a replica of a ' Ford Model T ' trolley for the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad , which he acquired from the Statfold Barn Railway .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Banburyshire residents given New Year's Honors . In: Banbury Guardian , December 31, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2015. "Chiltern Railway chairman Adrian Shooter, who lives in Steeple Aston, was made a CBE." 
  2. ^ Alan Green: Shooter, Reginald Arthur - Biographical entry. In: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk, January 22, 2014, accessed July 6, 2018 (UK English).
  3. ↑ Press statement from Adrian Shooter ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Graeme Brown: Adrian Shooter to retire as Chiltern Railways chairman . In: Birmingham Post , July 1, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2014. 
  5. ↑ Sam McCaffrey: 'Why not do some re-engineering?' Adrian Shooter on the Vivarail D-Train . Cognitive Publishing Ltd. January 23, 2015. Accessed January 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ Peter Plisner: Rail Professional interview: Adrian Shooter . In: Rail Professional . February 2012. Archived from the original on January 23, 2012.
  7. ↑ People . In: Local Enterprise Partnership . Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 59282, HMSO, London, December 31, 2009, p. 8 ( PDF , English).
  9. ^ Megan Archer: Driver of economic development hands wheel over after successful three years . In: The Oxford Times , November 2, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2016. "chairman of Oxfordshire's Local Enterprise Partnership has stepped down after a" successful "three-and-a-half years." 
  10. ↑ Rail Future West Midlands Newsletter 126 . In: Railfuture West Midlands , Railfuture West Midlands, March 2013, p. 2.8. Retrieved January 14, 2016. "five 'big hitters' to become vice presidents of Railfuture: Lord Adonis , Adrian Shooter, Chris Green , Roger Ford and Barry Doe . … In May 2012… Adrian Shooter CBE (who is a Railfuture vice president) became MCR chairman. " 
  11. ^ Order of the British Empire: Commanders of the Order of the British Empire . In: Queen's List , BBC News Online, December 29, 2009, p. 15. Retrieved January 13, 2015. “Adrian Shooter. Chairman Chiltern Railway Company Ltd. For services to the rail industry. (Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire) " 
  12. ↑ Contact us . In: Model 'A' Ford Club of Great Britain . Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  13. ^ Peter Hall: Classic cars in the Road to Mandalay rally: week 2 . In: Daily Telegraph , February 3, 2014. "Adrian and Barbara Shooter's 1930 Ford Model A was temporarily sidelined by a seized wheel bearing" 
  14. ↑ One of the original "B Class" Sharp Stewart Steam Locomotive Comes Home. . In: Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society . Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  15. ↑ Alice Yang: Interview: Adrian Shooter . In: Felix Online , November 11, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2014. 
  16. ^ Dan Hearn: Rail boss with a special train set . In: Oxford Mail , May 28, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2015. "three-acre estate at Steeple Aston, near Bicester." 
  17. ↑ Kounteya Sinha: Love for Darjeeling toy train makes Briton buys off world's oldest surviving locomotive . In: Times of India , September 18, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2016. "Model number 778 ... run it in his personal garden ... tracks over 1.5 km is in the form of a loop ... Ambassador car that runs by the train when it chugs through his garden to give it a real feel of Darjeeling. ... station that looks exactly like the original Sukna station " 
  18. ↑ Bibek Debroy: Locomotive number 778 . In: Business Standard , January 1, 2016. “Owns Beeches Light Railway. Indeed, it operates out of his residence in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire. " 
  19. ↑ Anuradha Sharma: An Indian Relic in Oxfordshire . In: Forbes India , August 14, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2015. “Shooter bought an“ arts and crafts ”style house in Steeple Aston village, shipped in a Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) steam locomotive and set up his own private railway — the Beeches Light Railway — in his three-acre garden. " 
  20. ↑ R. Dimmick: New Build - Darjeeling Himalaya Railway Carriages (Boston Lodge Engineering Brochure), Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways , May 4, 2012, pp. 9, 11 (accessed December 10, 2015).
  21. ↑ Kounteya Sinha: Oldest toy train chugs through British garden . In: Times of India , September 19, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2016. “Two replicas of DHR carriages were constructed at the Boston Lodge Works of the Ffestiniog Railway. These and the locomotive run in Adrian Shooter's private garden railway. " 
  22. ↑ Kounteya Sinha: A Darjeeling joyride in a British garden . In: Times of India , September 20, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2016. 
  23. ↑ July fun for all the family on the rails! . In: rail.co.uk , May 27, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2016. “Model T railcar… based on a Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railway (Maine, USA) Superintendent's Inspection Car. ... built for Adrian Shooter at the Statfold Barn Railway in 2008 and resides at Adrian's private Beeches Light Railway " 
personal data
SURNAME Shooter, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entrepreneur and director of a railway company
DATE OF BIRTH November 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH London