BEHIND THE SCENES AT CHILTERN
THE name Adrian Shooter will be known to RM readers through his many senior roles in the railway industry, ranging from running Red Star Parcels, Chiltern Railways, Vintage Trains and Viva Rail to name but a few.
He has also written several books, and the latest one, Chiltern Railways – The Inside Story, is dedicated to his two decades at the helm of the privatised operator. It takes the reader from his appointment as director of the embryonic Chiltern Railways in 1993, to his retirement nearly 20 years later after leading the successful management buyout bid.
The book documents, in almost painful detail, the difficulties of railway Privatisation, which followed from the flawed Railways Act 1993. To this reviewer’s knowledge, it is the first time since Gerard Fiennes (in his 1967 book I Tried To Run A Railway) that a senior railway professional at the centre of the industry has written publicly on
