 A new refreshment booth was built to the south-east in the 1990s, under the main platform verandah.One air raid shelter survives of two built in the early 1940s to the south-west of the station building.The North Coast railway line was extremely busy during World War II, and the construction of air raid shelters at Maryborough railway station was probably linked to this increased wartime traffic as well as to Maryborough's value as an industrial target and transport hub.