Lintz Green railway station

[1] The line closed completely in 1963 and was dismantled[2] with the station site becoming part of the Derwent Walk Country Park.

[3] 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.

[4] 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.

[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.

At the opening of the trial, the local chief constable, William E. Morant, appeared and offered no evidence against Atkinson, who was released.