Deansgate-Castlefield serves as a transport hub by integrating with National Rail services from Deansgate railway station by a footbridge.

Exits from the station lead to the Great Northern Warehouse, the reconstructed Mamucium Roman Fort, the Beetham Tower, and Deansgate Locks.

The listed building survived as a local landmark, and after serving as a car park, the old station was refurbished and re-opened as an exhibition and conference centre.

The viaduct arches beneath the station, overlooking the Rochdale Canal, have since been refurbished and converted into the Deansgate Locks development comprising bars, restaurants and a comedy club.

However, 2011 proposals[7] showed St Peter's Square as a major 4-platform interchange, putting the third platform at Deansgate-Castlefield into doubt.