Marble Arch tube station
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Marble Arch is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. It 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. It is on London Buses route 2, 10, route 15, 16, 30, 36, 73, 74, 82, 137, 148, 159, 414 and 436.
The station is between Lancaster Gate and Bond Street stations on the Central Line, and is in Travelcard Zone 1. It 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.
External links
- [London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
- * [Ticket hall with lift doors, 1924]
- * [Rebuit ticket hall, 1932]
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