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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
General information
Location	Bahnhofplatz Biel/Bienne Switzerland
Coordinates	47°7′58.386″N 7°14′34.505″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
Other information
Fare zone	libero: 300
Website	Bahnhof Biel / La gare de Bienne
History
Opened	1923 (1923)
Passengers
2018	53,700 per working day[1]
Rank	12 of 1735
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Neuchâtel towards Lausanne IC 5 Grenchen Süd towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Neuchâtel towards Geneva Airport Solothurn towards Rorschach Terminus IC 51 Grenchen Nord towards Basel SBB RegioExpress Grenchen Nord towards Meroux Sonceboz-Sombeval towards La Chaux-de-Fonds Terminus Frinvillier-Taubenloch towards La Chaux-de-Fonds or Moutier Regio Tüscherz towards Neuchâtel Terminus S20 Biel Mett towards Olten 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 Show map of Switzerland Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne (Canton of Bern) Show map of Canton of Bern

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/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]

• 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.

See also

• History of rail transport in Switzerland
• Rail transport in Switzerland

Notes

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.

External links

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

На других языках

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[de] Bahnhof Biel/Bienne

Der Bahnhof Biel/Bienne ist der Bahnhof der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen (SBB) und der Aare Seeland mobil (ASm) der Stadt Biel/Bienne in der Schweiz.

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- [en] Biel/Bienne railway station

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