The 1890s rebuilding resulted in the erection of the clock tower, concourse, tramway canopy, hotel, freight offices and goods store.

For a short time in the 1930s, some passenger services were run by the Northern Counties Committee, between York Road and Donegall Quay, where LMS steamers operated to Heysham.

Wooden steps were provided to allow passengers to climb into the carriages from the paved area outside Donegall Quay's transit sheds.

This tunnel was closed in 1966 and converted into a pedestrian subway, thus completely isolating York Road from the rest of Belfast.

The Midland Hotel, on the Whitla Street side of the complex, was destroyed, along with the covered tram terminus next door.

The two large overall semi-circular glass roofs which covered the platforms of York Road station at the concourse end were also destroyed.

Although the hotel was re-built (in much-simplified form) and the station was revamped on two occasions (notably in 1966), it never regained its pre-war grandeur.

With no direct rail link to the rest of the network in Belfast, York Road was relegated to being a fairly quiet terminus for services on the Larne line between 1978 and 1992, apart from some brief excursion trains, and a short resumption of York Road-Antrim stopping services in 1980.The station was finally closed in 1992 in preparation for the construction of the Cross Harbour Rail Link connecting the Larne line to Belfast Central (Now Belfast Lanyon Place).