Industry mourns death of Adrian Shooter

Adrian Shooter, an engineer who led the first Chiltern Railways franchise and founded Vivarail, has died in Switzerland. Mr Shooter, who was 74 and had unveiled a statue of himself at London Marylebone station earlier this year, joined British Rail in 1970 as a management trainee. As privatisation approached he led the management of the Chiltern Railways Train Operating Unit for BR and won the first franchise, which began in July 1996, later becoming chairman of DB Regio UK after the second Chiltern franchise was acquired by Deutsche Bahn in 2008. In 2013 he founded Vivarail, which bought redundant District Line cars from Transport for London and refurbished them.