diff --git a/pageserver/src/config.rs b/pageserver/src/config.rs
index e9f197ec2d..525d9afebc 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/config.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/config.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ use pageserver_api::{
 use remote_storage::{RemotePath, RemoteStorageConfig};
 use std::env;
 use storage_broker::Uri;
-use utils::crashsafe::path_with_suffix_extension;
 use utils::logging::SecretString;
 
 use once_cell::sync::OnceCell;
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ use crate::tenant::storage_layer::inmemory_layer::IndexEntry;
 use crate::tenant::{TENANTS_SEGMENT_NAME, TIMELINES_SEGMENT_NAME};
 use crate::virtual_file;
 use crate::virtual_file::io_engine;
-use crate::{TENANT_HEATMAP_BASENAME, TENANT_LOCATION_CONFIG_NAME, TIMELINE_DELETE_MARK_SUFFIX};
+use crate::{TENANT_HEATMAP_BASENAME, TENANT_LOCATION_CONFIG_NAME};
 
 /// Global state of pageserver.
 ///
@@ -257,17 +256,6 @@ impl PageServerConf {
             .join(timeline_id.to_string())
     }
 
-    pub(crate) fn timeline_delete_mark_file_path(
-        &self,
-        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-        timeline_id: TimelineId,
-    ) -> Utf8PathBuf {
-        path_with_suffix_extension(
-            self.timeline_path(&tenant_shard_id, &timeline_id),
-            TIMELINE_DELETE_MARK_SUFFIX,
-        )
-    }
-
     /// Turns storage remote path of a file into its local path.
     pub fn local_path(&self, remote_path: &RemotePath) -> Utf8PathBuf {
         remote_path.with_base(&self.workdir)
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
index dc4118bb4a..90db08ea81 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
@@ -135,25 +135,6 @@ async fn delete_remote_layers_and_index(timeline: &Timeline) -> anyhow::Result<(
         .context("delete_all")
 }
 
-// This function removs remaining traces of a timeline on disk.
-// Namely: metadata file, timeline directory, delete mark.
-// Note: io::ErrorKind::NotFound are ignored for metadata and timeline dir.
-// delete mark should be present because it is the last step during deletion.
-// (nothing can fail after its deletion)
-async fn cleanup_remaining_timeline_fs_traces(
-    conf: &PageServerConf,
-    tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-    timeline_id: TimelineId,
-) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    // Remove delete mark
-    // TODO: once we are confident that no more exist in the field, remove this
-    // line.  It cleans up a legacy marker file that might in rare cases be present.
-    tokio::fs::remove_file(conf.timeline_delete_mark_file_path(tenant_shard_id, timeline_id))
-        .await
-        .or_else(fs_ext::ignore_not_found)
-        .context("remove delete mark")
-}
-
 /// It is important that this gets called when DeletionGuard is being held.
 /// For more context see comments in [`DeleteTimelineFlow::prepare`]
 async fn remove_timeline_from_tenant(
@@ -194,12 +175,10 @@ async fn remove_timeline_from_tenant(
 /// 7. Delete mark file
 ///
 /// It is resumable from any step in case a crash/restart occurs.
-/// There are three entrypoints to the process:
+/// There are two entrypoints to the process:
 /// 1. [`DeleteTimelineFlow::run`] this is the main one called by a management api handler.
 /// 2. [`DeleteTimelineFlow::resume_deletion`] is called during restarts when local metadata is still present
 ///    and we possibly neeed to continue deletion of remote files.
-/// 3. [`DeleteTimelineFlow::cleanup_remaining_timeline_fs_traces`] is used when we deleted remote
-///    index but still have local metadata, timeline directory and delete mark.
 ///
 /// Note the only other place that messes around timeline delete mark is the logic that scans directory with timelines during tenant load.
 #[derive(Default)]
@@ -311,18 +290,6 @@ impl DeleteTimelineFlow {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    #[instrument(skip_all, fields(%timeline_id))]
-    pub async fn cleanup_remaining_timeline_fs_traces(
-        tenant: &Tenant,
-        timeline_id: TimelineId,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        let r =
-            cleanup_remaining_timeline_fs_traces(tenant.conf, tenant.tenant_shard_id, timeline_id)
-                .await;
-        info!("Done");
-        r
-    }
-
     fn prepare(
         tenant: &Tenant,
         timeline_id: TimelineId,