Early on in the making of the Honeysuckle Point Terminus, Newcastle residents called for an extension to the centre of town and in 1857, the parliamentary select committee recommended that a single line for goods and passenger traffic be laid from Honeysuckle Point to the wharf at Watt Street.

[8] In November 1857 a contract for £6,347,[clarification needed] was awarded to William Wright for the 67 chains (1.3 km; 0.84 mi) extension.

This plan did not eventuate, but rather the replacement of the original Scott Street verandah by the current enclosed brick structure and the extension of the single dining room to three storeys.

[12][2] On 20 September 1987, the diesel multiple unit depot was relocated to Broadmeadow and later redeveloped as a bus station and park land.

The complex is united structurally by platform verandahs, supported on elaborate brackets, and visually by the common motifs of semi-circular windows, four-panel doors with overhead fanlights, frieze under eaves and the stone quoins/pilasters which define the corners of the buildings.

The buildings on either side of the Booking Hall have raised skylights which make interesting variations in the roofline of the complex.

Scientifically the site has potential to reveal information which could provide greater insight into the changing face of rail travel to the state's second major city, the changing face of its relationship with the harbour and the Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops and the importance in the development of gas lighting in Newcastle City.

[2] The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

It is a major example of one type of Victorian Station architecture and as a townscape element of part of the original civic and commercial centre.

[2] The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

The site has potential to reveal information which could provide greater insight into the changing face of rail travel to the state's second major city over more than a century, the changing face of its relationship with the harbour and the Honeysuckle Workshops and the importance in the development of gas lighting in Newcastle City.