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Biel/Bienne railway station (German: Bahnhof Biel; French: Gare de Bienne) serves the bilingual municipalityofBiel/Bienne, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.

Biel/Bienne

Three-story classical building with columns

The main entrance to the station on the northern side

General information

Location

Bahnhofplatz
Biel/Bienne
Switzerland

Coordinates

47°7′58.386″N 7°14′34.505″E / 47.13288500°N 7.24291806°E

Elevation

437 m (1,434 ft)

Owned by

Swiss Federal Railways

Line(s)

Basel–Biel/Bienne line

Biel/Bienne–Bern line

Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line

Biel–Täuffelen–Ins line

Platforms

10

2side platforms

4island platforms

Tracks

12

Train operators

Aare Seeland mobil

Swiss Federal Railways

Connections

PostAuto/CarPostal buses

Biel/Bienne trolleybuses (VB/Tpb)

BSG ships

^[1]

Construction

Platform levels

2

Parking

140

Architect

Moser und Schürch (1923); Johann Jenzer (1864); Karl Etzel and Ludwig Maring (1857)

Other information

Station code

BI

Fare zone

libero: 300^[2]

Website

Welcome to Biel/Bienne station.

History

Opened

1923 (1859 at different location)

Passengers

2023

50,800 per weekday^[3] (BLS, SBB (excluding ASM))

Rank

12 of 1160

Services

Preceding station	Swiss Federal Railways			Following station
Neuchâtel towards Lausanne		IC 5		Grenchen Süd towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Neuchâtel towards Geneva Airport		IC 5		Solothurn towards Rorschach
Terminus		IC 51		Grenchen Nord towards Basel SBB
Terminus		RE56		Grenchen Nord towards Meroux TGV
Sonceboz-Sombeval towards La Chaux-de-Fonds		RE4		Terminus
Frinvillier-Taubenloch towards La Chaux-de-FondsorMoutier		R41
Tüscherz towards Neuchâtel		R16
Terminus		S20		Biel Mett towards Olten
Preceding station	BLS			Following station
Terminus		IR 65		Lyss towards Bern
Terminus		RE11 Weekends only		Lyss towards Brig
Preceding station	Aare Seeland mobil			Following station
Nidau towards Ins		Regio		Terminus
Preceding station	Bern S-Bahn			Following station
Terminus		S3		Brügg BE towards Belp
Terminus		S31		Lyss towards Belp

Location

It is a major railway junction on the Swiss railways network. It lies on one of the two busiest major railway lines between the northeastern (St. Gallen/Zürich) and southwestern Switzerland (Geneva); the other goes via Bern. An InterCity between St. Gallen and Genève-Aéroport only takes 3:58h with one of its tilting train compositions (in 2024). The other major line is between Basel and Lausanne/Geneva; via Delémont it also connects the canton of Jura with the Swiss railway network. And third, it also connects the French-speaking part of canton of Bern (the Bernese Jura) and La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE) in the west with Bern in the east.

All trains of these lines meet in Biel/Bienne at a quarter after and a quarter before o'clock in a half an hour frequency according to the Swiss-wide applied clock-face scheduling, so that seamless changes of just a few (2–5) minutes between trains of all these lines are easily possible.

It is located in the center of Biel/Bienne and is therefore part of the fare zone 300 of the libero fare network.

Biel/Bienne's railway station is the twelfth busiest station in Switzerland with 46,000 passengers per working day (in 2022).

Services

Long-distance

The following long-distance trains call at Biel/Bienne:^[4]

InterCity:
- half-hourly service over the Jura Foot line to Geneva Airport or Lausanne and Zürich Hauptbahnhof or Rorschach.
- hourly service over the Basel–Biel/Bienne linetoBasel SBB.
InterRegio: half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Bern.

Regional

The following regional trains call at Biel/Bienne:^[4]

RegioExpress:
- hourly service over the Basel–Biel/Bienne line from Biel/Bienne to Meroux TGV (in France).
- hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to La Chaux-de-Fonds.
- daily service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line on weekends during the high season to Brig.
Regio:
- hourly to half-hourly service over the Jura Foot line to Neuchâtel.
- half-hourly service over the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins linetoIns.
- hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to La Chaux-de-Fonds and Moutier via Sonceboz-Sombeval.

S-Bahn

The following Bern S-Bahn trains call at Biel/Bienne:^[4]

S3: half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.
S20: half-hourly service to Solothurn, with every other train continuing from Solothurn to Olten.
S31: rush-hour service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.

See also

References

^ "Liniennetz Biel und Umgebung - Plan du réseau Bienne et environs" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.

^ "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.

^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Biel/Bienne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Abfahrt: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German and French). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.

Notes

Boss, Paul (1997). Das war der alte Bahnhof [That was the old Station] (in German). Bern: Benteli Verlag. OCLC 603800392.
Stutz, Werner (1976). Bahnhöfe der Schweiz [Railway Stations of Switzerland] (in German). Zürich: Verlag Berichthaus. p. 162. ISBN 3-85572-018-5.

External links

Media related to Biel/Bienne railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Biel/Bienne railway station – SBB

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