Birkenhead Park railway station
Birkenhead Park 
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| Location | |
| Place | Birkenhead |
| Local authority | Wirral |
| Coordinates | 53°23′51″N 3°02′20″W / 53.3974°N 3.0390°WCoordinates: 53°23′51″N 3°02′20″W / 53.3974°N 3.0390°W |
| Grid reference | SJ310894 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BKP |
| Managed by | Merseyrail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.108 million |
| 2012/13 |
 1.106 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.766 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.785 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.771 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Merseytravel |
| Zone | B1 |
| History | |
| 1888 | Opened |
| 1938 | Electrified |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Birkenhead Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Birkenhead Park railway station is a two platform through station situated in Birkenhead, Wirral, England. It lies on the Wirral Line 3 1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network.
The name of the station comes from nearby Birkenhead Park, one of the UK's first Victorian municipal parks. In 1850 its layout - created by Joseph Paxton - had a profound influence on visiting American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Eight years later he took inspiration from Birkenhead Park (and other green spaces like Derby Arboretum) to win a competition to design New York's new city park.
The station was opened on 2 January 1888, as a joint interchange station between the Seacombe, Hoylake and Deeside Railway and the Mersey Railway. The station replaced the Wirral Railway's original terminus at Wallasey Bridge Road, which was close to the present-day Birkenhead North station. The station was an interchange between the Wirral Railway's line to West Kirby and the Mersey Railway's new line to Liverpool Central low level station. On the same day of opening, the Wirral Railway's new line to Wallasey Grove Road opened, which was extended to New Brighton later the same year.
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