Biel/Bienne railway station

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

Biel/Bienne
The main entrance to the station on the northern side
LocationBahnhofplatz
Biel/Bienne
Switzerland
Coordinates47°7′58.386″N 7°14′34.505″E
Elevation437 m (1,434 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Tracks12
Train operators
Connections
Construction
Platform levels2
Other information
Fare zonelibero: 300
WebsiteBahnhof Biel / La gare de Bienne
History
Opened1923 (1923)
Traffic
Passengers (2018)53,700 per working day[1]
Rank12 of 1735
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Neuchâtel
towards Lausanne
 InterCity
IC 5
 Grenchen Süd
towards St. Gallen
Neuchâtel
towards Geneva Airport
 Solothurn
towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Terminus InterCity
IC 51
 Grenchen Nord
towards Basel SBB
RegioExpress
 Grenchen Nord
towards Meroux
Sonceboz-Sombeval
towards La Chaux-de-Fonds
 Terminus
Terminus Regio
 Biel Mett
towards Olten
Frinvillier-Taubenloch
towards La Chaux-de-Fonds or Moutier
 Terminus
Tüscherz
towards Neuchâtel
Preceding station BLS Following station
Terminus InterRegio
IR 65
 Lyss
towards Bern
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
S31 Lyss
towards Belp
Location
Biel/Bienne
Location within Switzerland
Biel/Bienne
Biel/Bienne (Canton of Bern)

It is a major railway junction on the Swiss railways network. It lies on one of the two most busy major railway lines between the northeastern (St. Gallen/Zurich) 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]

Regional

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

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.
  • S31: rush-hour service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.

See also

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

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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