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Whitechapel is a London Underground station
in Whitechapel, east London. It is on the Hammersmith & City and District lines between Aldgate East and Stepney Green, and is on the East
London Line between Shoreditch and Shadwell. When Shoreditch is closed, it is the northern terminus for the
East London Line. It is in zone 2.
The District Line track connects with the East London Line just west of Whitechapel station, at St Mary's Curve. This was used
for passenger traffic until 1941 but is now only used occasionally to transfer empty trains
to and from the other sub-surface lines. The curve can easily be seen from the left-hand side of East London Line trains entering
Whitechapel station from the south.
It is proposed that Crossrail line 1 will call at Whitechapel, forking into
two eastbound branches after the station.
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