diff --git a/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs b/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
index 1e8dada85e..450eb8072f 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
@@ -517,7 +517,6 @@ async fn timeline_delete_handler(
         .instrument(info_span!("timeline_delete", %tenant_id, %timeline_id))
         .await?;
 
-    // FIXME: needs to be an error for console to retry it. Ideally Accepted should be used and retried until 404.
     json_response(StatusCode::ACCEPTED, ())
 }
 
diff --git a/test_runner/regress/test_timeline_delete.py b/test_runner/regress/test_timeline_delete.py
index 3647442da3..e641065c43 100644
--- a/test_runner/regress/test_timeline_delete.py
+++ b/test_runner/regress/test_timeline_delete.py
@@ -488,15 +488,7 @@ def test_timeline_delete_fail_before_local_delete(neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuild
     # Wait for tenant to finish loading.
     wait_until_tenant_active(ps_http, tenant_id=env.initial_tenant, iterations=10, period=1)
 
-    try:
-        data = ps_http.timeline_detail(env.initial_tenant, leaf_timeline_id)
-        log.debug(f"detail {data}")
-    except PageserverApiException as e:
-        log.debug(e)
-        if e.status_code != 404:
-            raise
-    else:
-        raise Exception("detail succeeded (it should return 404)")
+    wait_timeline_detail_404(ps_http, env.initial_tenant, leaf_timeline_id, iterations=4)
 
     assert (
         not leaf_timeline_path.exists()