Marble Arch tube station

Marble Arch is an underground station of the London Underground in the City of Westminster. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 1 at the western end of Oxford Street. The station on the Northern line of Hyde Park is named after the Marble Arch, a marble arch, named. Nearby is also the Speakers' Corner. In the year 2011 there were 16.87 million passengers these from the Central Line station.

Was opened the station on July 30, 1900 by the Central London Railway, predecessor of the Central Line. As in the other stations of the Central London Railway was in Marble Arch, access to the platforms originally by lifts. The station was rebuilt in the early 1930s and equipped with escalators. The original, designed by Harry Bell Measures station building at the intersection of Quebec Street and Oxford Street was closed and replaced on August 15, 1932 by a new building located further west.

In a German air raid on December 17, 1940 were twenty people were killed, who had sought refuge in the station; were added over 40 injured. 1985 received the walls of the platforms with new decorations from glazed enamel plates.