Biel/Bienne railway station

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
Line(s)	Basel–Biel/Bienne line ; Biel/Bienne–Bern line ; Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line ; Biel–Täuffelen–Ins line ; Jura Foot line ;
Tracks	12
Train operators	Aare Seeland mobil ; BLS AG ; Swiss Federal Railways ;
Connections	PostAuto/CarPostal buses; Biel/Bienne trolleybuses (VB/Tpb); BSG ships;
Construction
Platform levels	2
Architect	Moser und Schürch (1923); Johann Jenzer (1864); Karl Etzel and Ludwig Maring (1857)
Other information
Fare zone	libero: 300
Website	Bahnhof Biel / La gare de Bienne
History
Opened	1923 (1859 at different location)
Passengers
2018	53,700 per working day
Rank	12 of 1735
Services
Neuchâtel towards Geneva Airport	Solothurn towards Rorschach
Location
	Biel/Bienne Location within Switzerland Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne (Canton of Bern)

Last updated January 24, 2024

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 4:17h with one of its tilting train compositions (in 2019). 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 thirteenth busiest station in Switzerland with 52,100 passengers per working day (in 2016).

Services

Long-distance

The following long-distance trains call at Biel/Bienne:^[2]

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 line to Basel SBB.
InterRegio: half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Bern.

Regional

The following regional trains call at Biel/Bienne:^[2]

RegioExpress:
- hourly service over the Basel–Biel/Bienne line from Biel/Bienne to Meroux (in France).
- hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Regio:
- hourly to half-hourly service over the Jura Foot line to Neuchâtel.
- half-hourly service over the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins line to Ins.
- 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:^[2]

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.

Notes

↑ "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06– via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
1 2 3 "Abfahrt/Départ: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Basel–Biel/Bienne railway line</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyss railway station</span> Swiss railway station

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References

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.

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[SBB-1] "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06– via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.

[abfahrt-2] 1 2 3 "Abfahrt/Départ: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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