The Central Railway seems to have thrown the baby with the bathwater. After the incautious demolition of a toilet block adjacent to the CST heritage building led to some ornamental parts of the edifice being destroyed, the railway authorities have thought it best to dispose of the gargoyles rather than restore them.

When the toilet block on the eastern side of the CST premises was being razed, some ornamental sculptures attached to the Victorian Gothic structure were pulled down along with it