Lintz Green railway station

Lintz Green Railway Station was on the Derwent Valley Railway Branch of the North Eastern Railway near Consett, County Durham, England. The railway station opened with the rest of the line on 2 December 1867 and closed to passengers on the 2 November 1953.[1] The line closed completely in 1963 and was dismantled[2] with the station site becoming part of the Derwent Walk Country Park.[3]

Lintz Green
Remains of the station in 2011
Location
Place	England
Area	County Durham
Coordinates	54.905°N 1.766°W / 54.905; -1.766
Operations
Original company	North Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
2 December 1867	Station opens
2 November 1953	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

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, Joseph Wilson, 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.[5]

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, nobody was convicted of the crime.[6]

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.[5]

See also

• List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

References

1. "Disused Stations: Lintz Green Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
2. Historic England. "Consett Branch Railway (1376151)". PastScape. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
3. "Derwent Walk Country Park and Derwenthaugh Park". gateshead.gov.uk. Gateshead Council. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
4. Jones, Robin (2010). Lost railways of Durham & Teesside (1 ed.). Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-84674-205-7.
5. Middleton, Terry. "The Lintz Green Murder". gatesheadlibraries.com. iknow. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
6. 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. ISBN 978-0-7524-6229-5.

External links

• Station and line history
• Report on the murder

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Rowlands Gill Line and station closed		North Eastern Railway Derwent Valley Railway		High Westwood Line and station closed

Derwent Valley Railway (County Durham)
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Scotswood Scotswood Railway Bridge over River Tyne Blaydon Tyne Valley line to Carlisle │ to Newcastle Swalwell River Derwent Rowlands Gill River Derwent Lintz Green High Westwood Ebchester Shotley Bridge Stanhope and Tyne Railway to Tyne Dock Blackhill Carrhouse 1858-1868 Consett Iron Works Consett Consett Lanchester Valley Railway to Durham Hownsgill Viaduct Rowley Weardale Extension Railway to Crook and Bishop Auckland