Southwark Park railway station
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Southwark Park railway station was in southeast London
London
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 on the Greenwich Line
Greenwich Line
The Greenwich Line is a short railway line in South London that follows the route of the London and Greenwich Railway, which was the first railway line in London....

 of the South Eastern Railway. It opened on 1 October 1902, on approximately the same site as the then long-closed Commercial Dock railway station
Commercial Dock railway station
Commercial Dock railway station was in Rotherhithe on the Greenwich Line of the South Eastern Railway on approximately the same site as the later Southwark Park railway station. It was opened in 1856 and closed in 1867, though an alternative source quotes 1859 for the opening date. No visible...

. It was close to the southern end of Southwark Park
Southwark Park
Southwark Park is located in Rotherhithe, in central South East London, and is managed by the London Borough of Southwark. It first opened in 1869 by the Metropolitan Board of Works as one of its first parks...

, from which it took its name. South Bermondsey
South Bermondsey railway station
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 on the Inner South London Line is close.

It lay between to the north west and to the south east.

Like Spa Road, it closed on 15 March 1915 due to wartime economies, and did not reopen due to competition from other public transport.
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