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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.