Birkenhead Park is a stop on the Merseyrail Wirral Line on the Wirral between Conway Park and Birkenhead North.
Merseyrail 777 011 departs for Liverpool Central
Information
Type:
National Rail (Merseyrail Wirral Line)
Station code:
BKP
Opened:
1888
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1888 as a joint station [1] and interchange between the Wirral Railway's line to West Kirby and the Mersey Railway's line to Liverpool Central. The station takes it's name from a nearby Victorian municipal park.
When it was opened Birkenhead Park consisted of two island platforms, one for each railway operating from it. Trains bound for Liverpool often had their locomotives changed to those with condensing equipment for opration through the Mersey tunnel. Through trains on the Mersey Railway ended in 1903 with the electrification of the line. Wirral Railway trains (by now operated by the LMS) were electrified in 1938. Merseyrail trains still use the LMS third-rail electrification.
The station was badly damaged during a bombing in 1941 during the Blitz, the main building was destroyed and the line closed for eleven days. The station was rationalised in the late 1980s with just one island platform used nowadays, the other platform was demolished in 1992 [2]. The station is managed by Merseyrail.
508 130 stands at Birkenhead Park
Station frontage
A view of the ramp up to the station building level
507 002 arrives
View down the platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Birkenhead to West Kirby (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 8 [2] Ibid. Fig. 14
