The hamlet of Lintz Green is roughly half a mile south of the station site, and the small village of Lintzford is by the River Derwent about a half-mile to the north.
The station was infamous at the time for the unsolved 1911 murder of its stationmaster.[4]
Unsolved murder
On the night of Saturday 7 October 1911 the sixty-year-old stationmaster, George Wilson,[5] was shot when returning home after closing his office at the station. Although he did not die instantly, when questioned, Wilson was unable to say who had shot him.[6]
The motive for the killing was probably robbery as Wilson was in the habit of carrying the day's takings from the booking office to his house, a trip of 50 yards, when he left for the night. On the day in question, however, he had transported the money earlier in the day. Although the murder hunt, still one of the largest in the northeast, involved two hundred officers, no one was convicted of the crime.[7]
The prime suspect was the relief porter Samuel Atkinson who was arraigned at the local magistrates' court for the murder and sent for trial at the assize court in Durham. At the opening of the trial, the local chief constable, William E. Morant, appeared and offered no evidence against Atkinson, who was released.[6]
^ abMiddleton, Terry. "The Lintz Green Murder". gatesheadlibraries.com. iknow. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
^Brandon, David; Brooke, Alan (2010). "4: Murder on the line, 1900 - 2000". Blood on the tracks a history of railway crime in Britain. Stroud: History Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN978-0-7524-6229-5.
