Inside the bar walls we can see an area, now filled with railway related administration buildings, which for many years from 1840 onwards was home to the busy lines, soot, smoke and bustle of the old York railway terminal. Trains approached through two arched piercings made in the historic walls and reversed back out to continue their journeys onward to Newcastle and Scotland.

Outside the parapets, stands the new York Railway Station (1877) and the enormous Royal Station Hotel, which was completed one year later in 1878. The octagonal hotel entrance (with elaborate patterned tiling) right next to the station welcomed guests direct from the platform at their journey's end. The building is now called the Royal York Hotel. Continue along the Walls to Micklegate Bar.