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West Bay station

metro station in Qatar

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ108463406 ↗
Source-derived summary

West Bay Station is part of the Doha Metro's Red Line and serves the city of Al Dafna. The station is located next to West Bay Bus Depot. The naming rights to the station were once held by QIC, but were later held by Qatar Energy

History

The station was opened to the public on 10 December 2019 along with three other Red Line stations, over six months after the opening of the line's first 13 stations.

Station facilities

Facilities in the station include a prayer room and restrooms.

Connections

There are 2 metrolinks, which is the Doha Metro's free feeder bus network, servicing the station,

M106, which serves Onaiza (Zone 65).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “West Bay station” as metro station in Qatar. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around West, station and metro.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with West, station and metro providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “West Bay station”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Qatar” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108463406. Authority coordinates are 25.315, 51.520. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “West Bay station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.