Marble Arch tube station

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Marble Arch
Location
Place	Oxford Street
Local authority	Westminster

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	1
2005 annual usage	10.504 million †
2007 annual usage	14.967 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1900
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Marble Arch is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. The station is between Lancaster Gate and Bond Street stations on the Central Line, and is in Travelcard Zone 1.

1 History
2 The station today
- 2.1 Transport connections
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

The station was opened on 30 July 1900 by the Central London Railway (CLR).

Like all the original stations on the CLR, Marble Arch was served by lifts to the platforms but the station was reconstructed in the early 1930s to accommodate escalators. This saw the closure of the original station building, designed by the architect Harry Bell Measures, that was situated on the corner of Quebec Street and Oxford Street, and a replacement sub-surface ticket hall opened further to the west. The new arrangements came into use on 15 August 1932. The original surface building was later demolished.

During The Blitz, on 17 September 1940, a bomb hit the station and 20 people using it as an air-raid shelter were killed.

[edit] The station today

The station is named after the Marble Arch nearby and is located at the north east side of the Marble Arch junction, at the western end of Oxford Street.

There is a shunting neck to the west of the station allowing trains from Oxford Circus terminating here.