Biel/Bienne railway station

Location
	Biel/Bienne Location in Switzerland Biel/Bienne Location in the canton of Bern

Biel/Bienne
Biel/Bienne
	The main entrance to the station on the northern side
General information
Location	Bahnhofplatz; Biel/Bienne ; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°7′58.386″N7°14′34.505″E / 47.13288500°N 7.24291806°E
Elevation	437 m (1,434 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Lines	Basel–Biel/Bienne line ; Biel/Bienne–Bern line ; Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line ; Biel–Täuffelen–Ins line ; Jura Foot line ;
Platforms	10 2 side platforms ; 4 island platforms ;
Tracks	12
Train operators	Aare Seeland mobil ; BLS AG ; Swiss Federal Railways ;
Connections	PostAuto AG/CarPostal SA buses; Biel/Bienne trolleybuses (VB/Tpb); BSG ships;
Construction
Platform levels	2
Parking	Yes (140 spaces)
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Moser und Schürch (1923); Johann Jenzer (1864); Karl Etzel and Ludwig Maring (1857)
Other information
Station code	8504300 (BI)
Fare zone	libero: 300
Website	Welcome to Biel/Bienne station.
History
Opened	1923 (1859 at different location)
Passengers
2023	50,800 per weekday(BLS, SBB (excluding ASM))
Rank	12 of 1160
Services
Location
Location
	Biel/Bienne Location in Switzerland Biel/Bienne Location in the canton of Bern

Last updated December 17, 2025

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

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 50'800 passengers per working day (in 2023).

Services

Long-distance

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

InterCity / InterRegio: half-hourly service to Lausanne, Zürich Hauptbahnhof, and Basel SBB; hourly service to Rorschach.
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 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 service to Yverdon-les-Bains.
- hourly service to Neuchâtel at various times during the day.
- 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.
S37 : half-hourly service over the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins line to Ins.

References

↑ "Liniennetz Biel und Umgebung - Plan du réseau Bienne et environs" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
↑ "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
↑ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Biel/Bienne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024– via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
1 2 3 "Abfahrt: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German and French). 14 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.

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

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "Liniennetz Biel und Umgebung - Plan du réseau Bienne et environs" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.

[2] "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.

[SBB-3] "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Biel/Bienne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024– via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.

[abfahrt-4] 1 2 3 "Abfahrt: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German and French). 14 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]