Lack of funds meant that Cannon Street station had to serve both functions.

Passenger services were provided in a converted building originally intended as a carriage shed.

[1] Hull Cannon Street station closed to passengers on 14 July 1924,[2] after the London and North Eastern Railway had built the Spring Bank chord to Hull Paragon, and passenger services were diverted there.

The wooden passenger buildings had disappeared by the late 1970s, the goods office which stood parallel to the street was demolished after 2002.

In 2005 Hull College has built motor vehicle workshops for training purposes on the site.