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:
- half-hourly service over the Jura Foot line to Lausanne and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, with every other train continuing to Rorschach, rush-hour trains continue from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to St. Gallen.
- 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:[4]
- 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.
- 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.
See also
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.
- ^ a b c "Abfahrt: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German and French). 15 December 2024. Retrieved 8 January 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
