Marble Arch tube station

Marble Arch
Marble Arch
	Marble Arch Location of Marble Arch in Central London
Location	Oxford Street
Local authority	Westminster
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2018	13.49 million
2019	12.16 million
2020	3.66 million
2021	5.24 million
2022	9.60 million
Key dates
30 July 1900	Opened
Other information
External links	TfL station info page ;
WGS84	51°30′49″N0°9′30″W / 51.51361°N 0.15833°W
	London transportportal

Last updated February 29, 2024

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

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.

The platforms, originally lined in plain white tiles, were refitted with decorative vitreous enamel panels in 1985. The panel graphics were designed by Annabel Grey.^[6]

The station was modernised in 2010, resulting in new finishes in all areas of the station, apart from the retention of many of the decorative enamel panels at platform level.^{[ citation needed ]}

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 siding to the west of the station allowing trains from Epping, Hainault and Woodford to terminate here. It is not commonly used but it is still retained for emergencies and when engineering works take place.

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Lancaster Gate towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip		Central line		Bond Street towards Epping, Hainault or Woodford via Newbury Park

Incidents

On 27 April 2018, a 90-year old man, Robert Malpas, was suddenly and without warning pushed onto the train tracks, suffering a broken pelvis and a head wound.^[7] A bystander rescued him from the tracks, and the perpetrator - who was unknown to Malpas - was later found guilty of attempted murder^[7]^[8] and jailed for life.^[9]^[10] The incident was captured on CCTV.^[7]

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References

↑ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
↑ Underground Architecture; David Lawrence; Capital Transport;1994
1 2 3 "Series 24 Episode 4". 24 Hours in A&E. Series 24. Episode 4. 21 June 2021. Channel 4. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
↑ "Man guilty of Eurotunnel boss Tube push murder attempt". BBC News . 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
↑ "Tube pusher Paul Crossley jailed for life". BBC News . 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
↑ Kirk, Tristan (24 June 2019). "Paranoid schizophrenic who pushed former Eurotunnel boss on to Tube tracks is jailed for life". Evening Standard . Retrieved 21 June 2021.

External links

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Ticket hall with lift doors, 1924
- Rebuilt ticket hall, 1932

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[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2018-1] "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2019-2] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2020-3] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2021-4] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2022-5] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

[6] Underground Architecture; David Lawrence; Capital Transport;1994

[A+E-7] 1 2 3 "Series 24 Episode 4". 24 Hours in A&E. Series 24. Episode 4. 21 June 2021. Channel 4. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[8] "Man guilty of Eurotunnel boss Tube push murder attempt". BBC News . 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

[9] "Tube pusher Paul Crossley jailed for life". BBC News . 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.

[10] Kirk, Tristan (24 June 2019). "Paranoid schizophrenic who pushed former Eurotunnel boss on to Tube tracks is jailed for life". Evening Standard . Retrieved 21 June 2021.

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