Biel/Bienne railway station


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Biel/Bienne railway station (‹See Tfd›German: Bahnhof Biel; French: Gare de Bienne) serves the bilingual municipality of Biel/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
LocationBahnhofplatz
Biel/Bienne
Switzerland
Coordinates47°7′58.386″N 7°14′34.505″E / 47.13288500°N 7.24291806°E
Elevation437 m (1,434 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Platforms
Tracks12
Train operators
Connections[1]
Construction
Platform levels2
Parking140
AccessibleYes
ArchitectMoser und Schürch (1923); Johann Jenzer (1864); Karl Etzel and Ludwig Maring (1857)
Other information
Station code8504300 (BI)
Fare zonelibero: 300[2]
WebsiteWelcome to Biel/Bienne station.
History
Opened1923 (1859 at different location)
Passengers
202350,800 per weekday[3] (BLS, SBB (excluding ASM))
Rank12 of 1160
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Neuchâtel

towards Lausanne

IC 5 Grenchen Süd
Neuchâtel Solothurn

towards Rorschach

Terminus IC 51 Grenchen Nord

towards Basel SBB

RE56 Grenchen Nord

towards Meroux TGV

Sonceboz-Sombeval RE4 Terminus
Frinvillier-Taubenloch R41
Tüscherz

towards Neuchâtel

R16
Terminus S20 Biel Mett

towards Olten

Preceding station BLS Following station
Terminus IR 65 Lyss

towards Bern

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

S31 Lyss

towards Belp

Location

Map

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).

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

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

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.
  1. ^ "Liniennetz Biel und Umgebung - Plan du réseau Bienne et environs" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Biel/Bienne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
  4. ^ a b c "Abfahrt: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German and French). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  • 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.