Adrian Shooter

Adrian Shooter was born on 22 November 1948 in London. His father was Reginald Arthur Shooter, a microbiologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, best known for chairing the enquiry into the 1978 smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom. His mother was Jean Shooter (née Wallace), who was also a doctor. The two had met whilst serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.{{cite web|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:377077/one|title=Shooter, Reginald Arthur (1916–2013)|number=RCS: E004894|work=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of England|date=18 June 2014|access-date=15 December 2022|quote=Reggie and Jean became engaged two weeks after they met and married in Bristol on 6 December 1946. Their first child, Adrian, was born in 1948 in London. He became, amongst other things, head of Chiltern Railways.}}

Shooter was educated at Kingswood House School and Epsom College. Having failed his mathematics A-level, he lost his accepted place at the University of Leeds and instead studied mechanical engineering at North Staffordshire Polytechnic.{{cite book|publisher=Pen & Sword|date=30 April 2018|isbn=9781473893191|first=Adrian|last=Shooter|title=A Life in Engineering and Railways|type=Autobiography}}

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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.{{cite magazine|title=Fact panel: Adrian Shooter|magazine=Rail Magazine|issue=324|date=11 February 1998|page=29}}{{clarification needed|reason=Accourding to our article on Chiltern Railways, as linked here, it is "a British train operating company that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996". So either CR was doing something different in 1994, in which case our our article on them needs updating, or AS joined an organisation 2 years before it existed, in which case this article needs updating|date=January 2023}}

During the privatisation of British Rail he headed up the M40 Trains management buyout consortium that was awarded the Chiltern Railways franchise. Shooter was the first managing director of that franchise in 1996, and went on to become its chairman. In early 1999 three managers of Chiltern Railways, Shooter, Alex Turner and Owen Edgington, sold their controlling stake in Chiltern to John Laing Group for {{nowrap|£1.5 million}}.{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1999UKEnglish/Mar%2010%201999%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2366457%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater|via=Archive.org|work=The Times|date=10 March 1999|page=29|access-date=15 December 2022|number=66457|department=Business roundup|title=Chiltern Railways sold|quote=a former trio of British Rail managers who backed the 1996 buyout, will share £1.5 million after selling a controlling stake to John Laing.}} With the acquisition of John Laing by Deutsche Bahn in 2008, he became chairman of DB Regio UK. He retired from this role in December 2011.

Shooter had introduced the use of driving simulators for training Chiltern Railways' train drivers.{{cite news|url=https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/03/book-review-chiltern-railways-the-inside-story-by-adrian-shooter.html|title=Book Review: Chiltern Railways – The Inside Story by Adrian Shooter|first=Roger|last=Smith|date=13 March 2022|access-date=16 December 2022|work=Rail Advent|department=book review|quote=anecdotes are the difficulties of working with bodies such as the Office of Rail Franchising, Strategic Rail Authority, and Network Rail. … every train was to be washed every day … use of simulators as part of their drive to improve driver training}} During his time at Chiltern he is credited with the doubling of its passenger numbers through innovation and investment in the ambitious development of train services and infrastructure,MBO preferred for Chiltern Rail Privatisation News issue 32 13 June 1996 page 1{{cite web|last1=Longhorn|first1=Danny|title=Tributes to railway pioneer Adrian Shooter CBE|url=https://news.railbusinessdaily.com/tributes-to-railway-pioneer-adrian-shooter-cbe/|website=RailBusinessDaily|access-date=14 December 2022|date=14 December 2022}}{{cite press release|url=http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/news/press-statement-adrian-shooter|title=Press statement from Adrian Shooter|date=19 June 2010|access-date=25 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128132744/http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/news/press-statement-adrian-shooter|archive-date=28 January 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/adrian-shooter-retire-chiltern-railways-3919217|title=Adrian Shooter to retire as Chiltern Railways chairman|date=1 July 2011|access-date=25 February 2014|first=Graeme|last=Brown|work=Birmingham Post}} and overseeing "the strongest growth record of any rail business in Europe". In November 2016 Shooter delivered the annual railway lecture to the Institution of Engineering and Technology on "Innovation and Realism".{{cite web|url=https://engx.theiet.org/b/blogs/posts/innovation-and-realism|title=Innovation and Realism|first=Clive|last=Kessell|editor-first=Lynsay|editor-last=Callaghan|work=EngX|date=6 January 2017|access-date=16 December 2022|publisher=Institution of Engineering & Technology}} Shooter was a director of the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) between 2001 and 2011. He chaired the organisation in 2007.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.modernrailways.com/article/selling-electrification|title=Selling electrification|magazine=Modern Railways|date=20 May 2021|access-date=16 December 2022|first=David|last=Shirres|quote=in 2007 Iain Coucher, Network Rail's Chief Executive, and Adrian Shooter, Chairman of the Association of Train Operating Companies, sent a three-page letter to the Department of Transport which strongly argued the case for electrification.}}{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03069033|title=ATOC Limited|website=Companies House|access-date=16 December 2018}}

Shooter was a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Chartered Institute of Transport.{{cite web|url=http://www.railpro.co.uk/magazine/?idArticles=1260|title=Rail Professional interview: Adrian Shooter|work=Rail Professional|date=February 2012|first=Peter|last=Plisner|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123075001/http://www.railpro.co.uk/magazine/?idArticles=1260|archive-date=23 January 2012}} He was 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.insidermedia.com/news/midlands/43877-|title=Shooter fired up for CBI role|date=9 December 2010|department=Business|work=Business Insider|publisher=Newsco Insider|quote=Chiltern Railways chairman Adrian Shooter is the new West Midlands vice-chairman of the CBI. He will take up the year-long appointment in December before becoming regional chairman in 2011. … Chairman of DB Regio UK which owned Chiltern Railways, DB Tyne & Wear Metro, 50 per cent of London Overground Rail Operations and Wrexham & Shropshire. He is also a non-executive director of the Rail Safety & Standards Board.}}{{cite web|title=Adrian Shooter CBE – Chairman|url=https://www.oxfordshirelep.com/cms/content/people|website=www.oxfordshirelep.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301081005/http://www.oxfordshirelep.org.uk/cms/content/people|archive-date=1 March 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/13927464.Driver_of_economic_development_hands_wheel_over_after_successful_three_years/|title=Driver of economic development hands wheel over after successful three years|work=The Oxford Times|first=Megan|last=Archer|date=2 November 2015|access-date=13 January 2016|quote=chairman of Oxfordshire's Local Enterprise Partnership has stepped down after a "successful" three-and-a-half years.}} In mid-2011, Shooter had joined the advisory board of the National Railway Museum.{{cite report|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229181/0382.pdf|title=6.1.6 Membership of advisory boards, Trustee subcommittees and subsidiary company boards|work=Science Museum Group Annual Report and Accounts 2011−12|publisher=Science Museum Group. The Stationery Office|location=London|date=2012-07-11|access-date=2022-12-28|isbn=9780102975772|quote=National Railway Museum Advisory Board … Mr Adrian Shooter CBE – from 23.08.11}}

In 2012, Shooter founded Vivarail, a company purchasing London Underground D78 Stock and rebuilding them into the Vivarail D-Train family, including diesel class 230s and third-rail electric class 484s.{{cite magazine|first1=Sam|last1=McCaffrey|title='Why not do some re-engineering?' Adrian Shooter on the Vivarail D-Train|url=http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/why-not-do-some-re-engineering-adrian-shooter-on-the-vivarail-d-train|magazine=Rail Technology Magazine|access-date=24 January 2015|date=23 January 2015}}{{Cite web|url=http://vivarail.co.uk/about-vivarail/|title=About Vivarail|website=Vivarail|language=en-GB|access-date=12 January 2019}} During the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) short demonstration trips with a prototype pure-battery D-Train were organised from Glasgow Central station with Shooter and Henry Posner III of Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) on board.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.railengineer.co.uk/trains-on-show-at-cop26/|title=Trains on show at COP26|magazine=Rail Engineer|publisher=Rail Staff|first=David|last=Shirres|date=23 December 2021|access-date=23 July 2022|quote=Departing from Glasgow Central station … The three-car unit concerned, 230 001, was the prototype diesel unit … On board, Vivarail's founder, Adrian Shooter, advised that the unit had been re-engineered as a battery-only train, with each coach having two 70kWh battery packs … Also on the train was Henry Posner whose Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) ordered a two-car, class 230 unit which is now running trips to demonstrate RDC's pop-up metro concept.}}

In 2013 Shooter became chairman of Churnet Valley Railway, and a vice-president of Railfuture along with Andrew Adonis, Chris Green, Roger Ford and Barry Doe.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.railfuture.org.uk/dl528|title=Railfuture West Midlands Newsletter 126|magazine=Railfuture West Midlands|publisher=Railfuture West Midlands|date=March 2013|issue=126|first1=Jerry|last1=Alderson|pages=2, 8|quote=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.|access-date=14 January 2016}} Shooter was a director of Vintage Trains from 2018 until 2020.{{cite magazine|title=Vintage Trains outlines its future as a Train Operator|magazine=Railways Illustrated|issue=189 |date=November 2018|page=13}}{{cite magazine|title=Changes at Vintage Trains|magazine=Rail Magazine|issue=897|date=29 January 2020|page=23}}

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During 2002 Adrian Shooter received an honorary doctorate (DUniv) from Staffordshire University. the successor body to North Staffordshire Polytechnic.{{cite web|url=https://www.staffs.ac.uk/about/honorary-graduates/2007-honorary-graduate-list|title=Pre-2007 Honorary Graduate List|publisher=Staffordshire University|year=2007|access-date=16 December 2022|quote=2002; Honorary Degrees were bestowed on: … Adrian Shooter; DUniv}} A decade later in 2013, he received an additional honorary doctorate (DUniv), this time from the University of Birmingham.{{cite report|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/university/governance/honorary-degrees-of-the-university-of-birmingham-since-2000.pdf|title=Honorary Graduates of the University of Birmingham since 2000|publisher=University of Birmingham|page=8|date=December 2021|access-date=16 December 2022|quote=Adrian Shooter; DUniv; 2013}} In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).{{citation|publisher=Royal Academy of Engineering|title=Archives of the Fellowship|type=unpublished"}}

In the 2010 New Year Honours list, Shooter was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to the rail industry".{{London Gazette | issue=59282 | date=31 December 2009 |page=8 |supp=1|title=Adrian Shooter|department=Order of the British Empire|quote=Chairman, Chiltern Railway Company Ltd. For services to the Rail Industry.}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/31_12_09_queenslist.pdf#page=15|page=15|quote=Adrian Shooter. Chairman Chiltern Railway Company Ltd. For services to the Rail Industry. (Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire)|title=Order of the British Empire: Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|work=Queen's List|date=29 December 2009|access-date=13 January 2015|publisher=BBC News}}{{cite news|url=http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/banburyshire-residents-given-new-year-s-honours-1-598822|title=Banburyshire residents given New Year's Honours|date=31 December 2009|quote=Chiltern Railway chairman Adrian Shooter, who lives in Steeple Aston, was made a CBE.|work=Banbury Guardian|access-date=10 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211020926/http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/banburyshire-residents-given-new-year-s-honours-1-598822|archive-date=11 December 2015|url-status=dead}} In June 2019 Shooter was recipient of the chairman's award of the Institute of Directors West Midlands branch.{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/congratulations-adrian-shooter-brian-hall|first=Brian|last=Hall|title=Congratulations Adrian Shooter|via=Linkedin|date=12 June 2019|access-date=16 December 2022|quote=During his tenure, he oversaw the strongest growth record of any rail business in Europe. … the final words should go to Adrian himself: "I have spent the last 50 years learning a little about people, engineering, railways, and how to encourage continuous improvement in many fields of endeavour. I am far from finished!"}} On 16 September 2021, Shooter received the lifetime achievement award at the Rail National Railway Awards.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.railmagazine.com/news/network/2021/09/29/award-winners-demonstrate-excellence-in-adversity|title=Award winners demonstrate excellence in adversity|issue=941|magazine=Rail Magazine|date=29 September 2021|department=Network|first=Stefanie|last=Foster|quote=presentation of a very rare Lifetime Achievement Award (only the second to be presented in 22 years of the {{abbr|NRA|National Railway Awards}}) to Adrian Shooter, chairman of Vivarail and career railwayman of more than 50 years.}}

On 30 August 2022, a {{convert|9|ft|adj=on|order=flip}} bronze statue with a bust of Shooter created by Luke Perry and crowdfunded by rail industry leaders and close associates, was unveiled beside platform 1 at Marylebone station in London. The bust sits on top of a girder and plinth and is secured to the ground using railway-inspired loops and bolts.{{cite web |last1=Mansfield |first1=Ian |title=Chiltern Railways founder gets a bronze statue at Marylebone station |date=5 September 2022 |url=https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/chiltern-railways-founder-gets-a-bronze-statue-at-marylebone-station-57221/ |access-date=17 December 2022}} At the same time, Class 168 Clubman unit 168001, the very first train ordered by Chiltern Railways, and the first new train in the UK ordered following the privatisation of British Rail, was named Adrian Shooter CBE.{{Cite news|last=Lowson|first=James|date=7 September 2022|title=Aylesbury commuters will now be greeted by new 9ft statue at London Marylebone station|work=Bucks Herald|url=https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/aylesbury-commuters-will-now-be-greeted-by-new-9ft-statue-at-london-marylebone-station-3834580|access-date=14 December 2022}}

On 23 November 2022, Shooter was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister's commendation by {{ill|Hayashi Hajime|jp|林肇|vertical-align=sup}}, Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom, for work on rail safety and establishing the UK–Japan Railways exchange programme in 1993.{{cite press release|url=https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/221123commendation.html|title=Foreign Minister's Commendation – Mr Adrian Shooter|quote=On 23 November 2022, Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime awarded the Foreign Minister's Commendation to Mr Adrian Shooter, Chairman of Vivarail Ltd. … In particular, he established the UK-Japan Railways Exchange Programme with Japanese railway companies in 1993|publisher=Embassy of Japan|location= London}}

File:2019-05-19-Jeremy-Davey-Adrian-Shooter-Darjeeling-19B-Beeches.jpg) at Beeches Light Railway in 2019.]]

Shooter married his first wife, Diana Crombie, in 1970 and they had a son and a daughter together. The marriage was dissolved in 2002, and in 2006 he married Barbara Harding.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-251441|title=Shooter, Adrian|work=Who's Who|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U251441|date=1 December 2020|access-date=16 December 2022|url-access=subscription}}

Besides his professional interest in railways, Shooter also owned the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Class 'B' steam locomotive 778 (originally No. 19),{{cite web|url=http://dhrs.org/page20.html|title=One of the original 'B Class' Sharp Stewart Steam Locomotive Comes Home.|work=Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society|access-date=25 February 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://felixonline.co.uk/news/1727/interview-adrian-shooter/|title=Interview: Adrian Shooter|first=Alice|last=Yang|date=11 November 2011|access-date=25 February 2014|work=Felix Online}} which he operated on the Beeches Light Railway in the grounds of his residence in Oxfordshire.{{cite news|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8192243.Rail_boss_with_a_special_train_set/|title=Rail boss with a special train set|first=Dan|last=Hearn|date=28 May 2010|work=Oxford Mail|quote=three-acre estate at Steeple Aston, near Bicester.|access-date=10 December 2015}}{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/bibek-debroy-locomotive-number-778-116010100863_1.html|title=Locomotive number 778|first=Bibek|last=Debroy|date=1 January 2016|work=Business Standard|location=India|quote=owns Beeches Light Railway. Indeed, it operates out of his residence in Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire.}}{{cite news|url=http://forbesindia.com/article/play/an-indian-relic-in-oxfordshire/38383/0|title=An Indian Relic in Oxfordshire|date=14 August 2014|access-date=13 January 2015|work=Forbes India|first=Anuradha|last=Sharma|quote=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.}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Love-for-Darjeeling-toy-train-makes-Briton-buys-off-worlds-oldest-surviving-locomotive/articleshow/42820938.cms|title=Love for Darjeeling toy train makes Briton buys off world's oldest surviving locomotive|work=Times of India|date=18 September 2014|access-date=13 January 2016|first=Kounteya|last=Sinha|quote=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}}{{cite news|url=http://forbesindia.com/article/recliner/steam-railways-heritage-lines-remain-neglected-in-india/42651/1|title=Steam railways, heritage lines remain neglected in India|first=Rajendra B|last=Aklekar|date=16 March 2016|access-date=6 April 2016|work=Forbes India|quote=A Darjeeling Himalayan Railway B-class steam locomotive that originally went to an American museum now runs on a private steam railway belonging to British rail expert Adrian Shooter in Oxfordshire.}} He also commissioned carriages to accompany the locomotive from the Ffestiniog Railway's Boston Lodge works,{{cite book|url=http://www.festrail.co.uk/ebrochures/pdf/bl_portfolio.pdf|title=New Build – Darjeeling Himalaya Railway Carriages|pages=9, 11|first=R|last=Dimmick|work=Boston Lodge Engineering|publisher=Ffestiniog Railway|format=brochure|date=4 May 2012|access-date=10 December 2015|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305135714/http://www.festrail.co.uk/ebrochures/pdf/bl_portfolio.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Oldest-toy-train-chugs-through-British-garden/articleshow/42833537.cms|title=Oldest toy train chugs through British garden|work=The Times of India|date=19 September 2014|access-date=13 January 2016|first=Kounteya|last=Sinha|quote=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.}}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/A-Darjeeling-joyride-in-a-British-garden/articleshow/42953459.cms|title=A Darjeeling joyride in a British garden|work=The Times of India|date=20 September 2014|access-date=13 January 2016|first=Kounteya|last=Sinha}} together with a replica Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad {{nowrap|'Model T'}} inspection locomotive commissioned from the Statfold Barn Railway.{{cite news|url=http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2015/lbr-anything-goes/|publisher=rail.co.uk|title=July fun for all the family on the rails!|date=27 May 2015|access-date=13 January 2016|quote=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}}

Shooter was chairman of the Model 'A' Ford Club of Great Britain.{{cite web|url=http://www.mafcgb.org.uk/contact/|title=Contact us|work=Model 'A' Ford Club of Great Britain|access-date=25 February 2014}} In 2014 his Model 'A' suffered a seized bearing during a classic rally race in Myanmar.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/classiccars/10614426/Classic-cars-in-the-Road-to-Mandalay-rally-week-2.html|title=Classic cars in the Road to Mandalay rally: week 2|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Peter|last=Hall|date=3 February 2014|quote=Adrian and Barbara Shooter's 1930 Ford Model A was temporarily sidelined by a seized wheel bearing}} He also owned an Indian Hindustan Ambassador car. In April 2022, Adrian and Barbara Shooter welcomed two refugees into their home during the 2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis with Barbara Shooter driving to the Polish border to collect them and drop off emergency supplies.{{CN|date=February 2025}}

By early 2022, Shooter had been diagnosed with motor neuron disease but planned to continue driving his Darjeeling steam locomotive for as long as possible. In March, he visited Siliguri and Darjeeling in India in his role of president of the UK-based Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-61038483|work=BBC News|title=Motor neuron disease will not stop steam train driver|date=8 April 2022|access-date=20 June 2022|first=Paul|last=Clifton}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dhrs.org/|website=Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society|first=Adrian|last=Shooter|title=Adrian Shooter CBE 1948‒2022|type=final words|date=14 December 2022|quote=By the time you read this…}}

Adrian Shooter died on 13 December 2022, at age 74.{{cite web|title=Tributes paid to former Chiltern Railways CEO Adrian Shooter|url=https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/tributes-paid-to-former-chiltern-railways-ceo-adrian-shooter/63162.article|website=Railway Gazette International|access-date=14 December 2022|date=14 December 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2022/12/15-industry-mourns-death-of-adrian.html|title=Industry mourns death of Adrian Shooter|work=Railnews|date=15 December 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/day-husband-helped-to-die-2818619|title=The day my husband was helped to die|first=Sadhbh|last=O'Sullivan|newspaper=i|date=2023-12-22|access-date=2024-01-22|quote=contacted a Swiss voluntary-assisted dying organisation called Pegasos.}} In a statement written by him and released by his wife after his death, he described how his symptoms had rapidly worsened, and said that "by the time you read this I shall have gone peacefully to sleep in a clinic in Switzerland".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/darjeeling-himalayan-railway-enthusiast-adrian-shooter-passes-away/cid/1903949|title=Darjeeling Himalayan Railway enthusiast Adrian passes away|date=15 December 2022|work=The Telegraph (India)|first=Avijit|last=Sinha}}{{Cite web |date=2022-12-22 |title=Adrian Shooter obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/22/adrian-shooter-obituary |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} Vivarail had entered administration almost a fortnight earlier. {{As of|2022|12|alt=By late-December 2022}} Shooter's memorial service had been planned to be held near Henley-on-Thames on 7 January 2023 at the Fawley Hill Railway museum, created by the late Sir William McAlpine.{{cite web|url=https://adrianshooter.muchloved.com/Fundraising/Events/660678024|title=Memorial service for Adrian|first=Barbara|last=Shooter|access-date=2022-12-27|quote=7 January 2023 at Fawley Hill Railway, Henley-on-Thames … by kind permission of Lady Judy McAlpine.}}

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• {{cite magazine|title=A. Shooter, Director, Festiniog Railway Society Ltd.|type=Personal portrait|first=P. John G.|last=Ransom|author-link=P. J. G. Ransom|magazine=Ffestiniog Railway Magazine|issue=55|page=32|year=1971}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/westmidlands/news/57213-railway-company-chairman-tackles-10k-mile-rally?news_section=19009|title=Railway company chairman tackles 10k mile rally|work=The Business Desk|location=West Midlands|date=2010-08-31|access-date=2022-12-28}}
• {{cite magazine|url=http://www.mdrs.org.uk/documents/donkey116.pdf|department=100 Years of the Joint Line|title=Part 4. Rise of the Phoenix|first=Mike|last=Walker|magazine=The Marlow Donkey|pages=5‒6|issue=116|date=March 2007|publisher=Marlow & District Railway Society}}
• {{cite journal|first=Adrian|last=Shooter|series=Clinker Lecture|date=28 September 2013|location=Birmingham and Midland Institute|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|title=The Process of Privatisation ‒ the Chiltern Railways example|journal=Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society|publication-date=2014|issue=220|pages=66‒73}}
• {{cite magazine|url=https://www.railenthusiastindia.org.in/document/Magazine-Final-Vol1-No-2.pdf|magazine=The Rail enthusiast|date=December 2016|number=2|volume=1|pages=17‒18|title=Adrian Shooter|first=Jander Lachhman|last=Singh}}
• {{cite book|publisher=Pen & Sword|date=30 April 2018|isbn=9781473893191|first=Adrian|last=Shooter|title=A Life in Engineering and Railways|type=Autobiography}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/dhr-learns-lessons-from-uk/cid/1672946|title=DHR learns lessons from UK|work=The Telegraph (India)|first=Bireswar|last=Banerjee|location=Siliguri|date=29 October 2018}}
• {{cite book|first=Adrian|last=Shooter|title=Chiltern Railways: The Inside Story|date=8 February 2022|publisher=Pen & Sword|isbn=9781526792495}}
• {{cite book|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/dhrs-president-opposes-commercialisation-bid-of-hill-rail/cid/1855589|title=DHRS chief Adrian Shooter opposes hill rail commercialisation bid|work=The Telegraph (India)|first1=Avijit|last1=Sinha|first2=Passang|last2=Yolmo|date=22 March 2022|location=Siliguri}}

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• {{cite magazine|url=https://railinsider.co.uk/2022/12/14/tributes-to-railway-pioneer-adrian-shooter-cbe/|title=Tributes to railway pioneer Adrian Shooter CBE|date=14 December 2022|access-date=16 December 2022|first=Danny|last=Longhorn|magazine=Rail Insider}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23192163.tributes-paid-chiltern-railways-founder-adrian-shooter/|title=Tributes paid to Chiltern Railways founder Adrian Shooter|first=Sophie|last=Perry|work=Oxford Mail|date=2022-12-14|access-date=2022-12-22}}
• {{cite web|url=https://www.focustransport.org/2022/12/death-of-adrian-shooter-founder-of.html|title=Death of Adrian Shooter - Founder of Chiltern Railways and Vivarail|work=Focus Transport|date=16 December 2022|access-date=16 December 2022}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.railjournal.com/news/obituary-adrian-shooter/|first=Simon|last=Artymiuk|title=Obituary: Adrian Shooter

|work=International Railway Journal|date=2022-12-18|access-date=2022-12-22}}

• {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/12/19/adrian-shooter-giant-rail-privatisation-who-british-rail-manager/#comment|title=Adrian Shooter, giant of rail privatisation who as a British Rail manager led the buyout of Chiltern Railways – obituary|date=2022-12-19|access-date=2022-12-22|url-access=subscription|work=The Daily Telegraph}}
• {{cite magazine|title=Tributes paid following death of Chiltern Railways founder Adrian Shooter|magazine=Heritage Railway|issue=301|date=2022-12-20}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/22/adrian-shooter-obituary|first=Christian|last=Wolmar|authorlink=Christian Wolmar|date=2022-12-22|access-date=2022-12-22|title=Adrian Shooter obituary|work=The Guardian}}
• {{cite magazine|url=https://www.railstaff.co.uk/2022/12/22/adrian-shooter/|title=Adrian Shooter|date=2022-12-22|access-date=2022-12-27|magazine=Rail Staff}}
• {{cite magazine|magazine=The Railway Magazine|date=2023-01-03|title=Obituary: Adrian Shooter}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/adrian-shooter-obituary-gg7rprszc|title=Adrian Shooter obituary|department=Obituary|date=2023-01-27|access-date=2023-05-24|newspaper=The Times|url-access=subscription}}

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• {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/02/letter-adrian-shooter-obituary|title=Letter: Adrian Shooter obituary|department=Letters|date=2023-03-02|access-date=2023-05-24|first=John|last=Harwood}}
• {{cite video|url=https://www.baevents.co.uk/adrian-shooter/|title=Adrian Shooter: A Life of Entrepreneurial Public Service|first=Ian|last=Baxton|type=video|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426000000/https://www.baevents.co.uk/adrian-shooter/|archive-date=2023-04-26|date=2023-04-13|via=Vimeo|location=Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa}} [https://player.vimeo.com/video/821266124?h=e3691313d9 Alt URL]

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• {{cite web|url=https://adrianshooter.muchloved.com/|title=Tribute to Adrian Shooter CBE, 1948‒2022|first=Barbara|last=Shooter|quote=Please support the wonderful MND Association}}

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