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Birkenhead Town railway station was a railway station based near the current entrance to the Queensway Tunnel on Grange Road. The station was opened in 1889 to accommodate the commercial centre of Birkenhead however once the road tunnel (which had been opened opposite the entrance to the station) was opened in June 1934 it found itself cut off from reasonable access to the town's market area and nearby residential district by Birkenhead Priory.

The line which travelled through Birkenhead Town station was the branch which bore trains from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington meaning that not all trains stopped at Birkenhead Town. The tunnel (now partially infilled) to Birkenhead Woodside lay at the platform ends of Birkenhead Town, to the immediate right of the tunnel entrance to Birkenhead Woodside was another tunnel, this time leading to the second Birkenhead rail terminus, Birkenhead Monks Ferry. The original Birkenhead terminus was Grange Road which lay to the west of Birkenhead Town.

Birkenhead Town closed in 1945.


References

Merseyside Railway History Group (1994) Railway Stations of Wirral. ISBN 1-899241-02-7


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