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
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 / 47.13288500; 7.24291806
Elevation437 m (1,434 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Tracks12
Train operators
Connections
Construction
Platform levels2
ArchitectMoser und Schürch (1923); Johann Jenzer (1864); Karl Etzel and Ludwig Maring (1857)
Other information
Fare zonelibero: 300
WebsiteBahnhof Biel / La gare de Bienne
History
Opened1923 (1923) (1859 at different location)
Passengers
201853,700 per working day[1]
Rank12 of 1735
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
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
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 is located in Switzerland
Biel/Bienne
Biel/Bienne
Location within Switzerland
Biel/Bienne is located in Canton of Bern
Biel/Bienne
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 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 edit

Long-distance edit

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

Regional edit

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

S-Bahn edit

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 edit

Notes edit

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

References edit

  • 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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