Marble Arch is a London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...

 station in the City of Westminster

City of Westminster

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. The station is between Lancaster Gate

Lancaster Gate tube station

Lancaster Gate is a London Underground station located on the Central Line near Lancaster Gate on Bayswater Road in Bayswater , to the north of Kensington Gardens. It is between Queensway and Marble Arch on the Central line and is in Travelcard Zone 1.-History:Lancaster Gate station was opened on...

 and Bond Street

Bond Street tube station

Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. Note that the street-level entrances are approximately 200 metres west of New Bond Street itself...

 stations on the Central line

Central Line

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, and is in Travelcard Zone 1

Travelcard Zone 1

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

Central London Railway

The Central London Railway , also known as the Twopenny Tube, was a deep-level, underground "tube" railway that opened in London in 1900...

 (CLR).

Like all the original stations on the CLR, Marble Arch was served by lifts

Elevator

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 to the platforms but the station was reconstructed in the early 1930s to accommodate escalator

Escalator

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s. This saw the closure of the original station building, designed by the architect Harry Bell Measures

Harry Bell Measures

Harry Bell Measures was an English architect.He had a varied career. From 1884 - 1892 he was in-house architect for William Willett producing high quality housing for the well-heeled in London and South East England; these were normally in the an ornate red brick Queen Anne style which was...

, that was situated on the corner of Quebec Street and Oxford Street, and a replacement sub-surface ticket hall opened further to the west.