Editing Marylebone station (section)

===History===
{{maplink |frame=yes |frame-align=left |frame-width=240 |frame-height=180 |type=point |marker=rail-metro |marker-color={{rcr|London Underground|Bakerloo}} |zoom=15 |text=Location of Marylebone tube station }}
The underground station was opened on 27 March 1907 by the [[Baker Street and Waterloo Railway]] under the name ''Great Central'', following a change from its intended name ''Lisson Grove''.{{sfn|Day|1979|pp=72, 75}} The railway terminated here until the extension to Edgware Road opened on 15 June.{{sfn|Demuth|2004|p=12}} The station was renamed ''Marylebone'' on 15 April 1917.<ref name=Rose1>{{cite book
|last=Rose
|first=Douglas
|title=The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History
|year=1999
|publisher=Douglas Rose/Capital Transport
|isbn=1-85414-219-4
}}</ref> The original name still appears in places on the platform wall tiling, although the tiling scheme is a replacement designed to reflect the original scheme.<ref name=Rose2>{{cite web
 |url         = http://omicron.sequence.co.uk/nonchksites/dougrose/walk_great_central.htm
 |title       = Great Central
 |work        = London's Underground Edwardian Tile Patterns
 |access-date  = 13 January 2008
|last        = Rose
 |first       = Douglas
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080828155520/http://omicron.sequence.co.uk/nonchksites/dougrose/walk_great_central.htm
 |archive-date = 28 August 2008
|df          = dmy-all
}}</ref>

The present entrance opened on 1 February 1943, following wartime damage to the original station building that stood to the west at the junction of Harewood Avenue and Harewood Row, and after the introduction of the escalators.{{sfn|Jackson|1984|p=340}} The old building, designed by the [[Underground Electric Railways Company of London]]'s architect, [[Leslie Green]], used lifts to access the platforms. It was demolished in 1971 and the site is occupied by a budget hotel.<ref>{{cite book |title=London's underground stations: a social and architectural study |first=Laurence |last=Menear |publisher=Midas |year=1983 |page=43 |isbn=978-0-859-36124-8}}</ref>

In August 2020, work began to install a third escalator in place of the present staircase, followed by replacement of the 1943 built escalators. The work is expected to be completed in 2023.<ref>{{cite press release |url= https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2020/august/vital-escalator-work-starts-at-marylebone-tube-station-this-month |title=Vital escalator work starts at Marylebone Tube station this month |publisher= Transport for London |date=5 August 2020 |access-date=2 September 2020}}</ref>