Services to Derry/Londonderry and intermediate locations continued to run until 1978, when the Belfast terminus was transferred to Belfast Central station, which had opened two years previously.
Services on the Belfast–Derry railway line were then run through a new spur that accessed the former Antrim branch of the GNRI via Lisburn station, rendering the York Road-Antrim branch redundant.


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 Belfast–Larne railway 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 Belfast–Larne railway line to Belfast Central.
It was replaced by the nearby Yorkgate station which served as a temporary terminus for the Larne line until completion of the rail link over the Dargan Bridge when through services began to operate to Belfast Central.
No traces of the station remain today, apart from the nearby maintenance depot, which is still in use.
Services to Derry/Londonderry and intermediate locations continued to run until 1978, when the Belfast terminus was transferred to Belfast Central station, which had opened two years previously. Services on the Belfast–Derry railway line were then run through a new spur that accessed the former Antrim branch of the GNRI via Lisburn station, rendering the York Road-Antrim branch redundant.

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 Belfast–Larne railway 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 Belfast–Larne railway line to Belfast Central. It was replaced by the nearby Yorkgate station which served as a temporary terminus for the Larne line until completion of the rail link over the Dargan Bridge when through services began to operate to Belfast Central. No traces of the station remain today, apart from the nearby maintenance depot, which is still in use.
York Road railway station