Biel/Bienne railway station
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![]() The main entrance to the station on the northern side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Bahnhofplatz Biel/Bienne Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°7′58.386″N 7°14′34.505″E / 47.13288500°N 7.24291806°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 437 m (1,434 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 10
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Tracks | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 140 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | Moser und Schürch (1923); Johann Jenzer (1864); Karl Etzel and Ludwig Maring (1857) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | BI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | libero: 300[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | Welcome to Biel/Bienne station. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1923 | (1859 at different location)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2023 | 50,800 per weekday[3] (BLS, SBB (excluding ASM)) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 12 of 1160 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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 46,000 passengers per working day (in 2022).
Services
[edit]Long-distance
[edit]The following long-distance trains call at Biel/Bienne:[4]
- 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
[edit]The following regional trains call at Biel/Bienne:[4]
- RegioExpress:
- hourly service over the Basel–Biel/Bienne line from Biel/Bienne to Meroux TGV (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 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
[edit]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.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Liniennetz Biel und Umgebung - Plan du réseau Bienne et environs" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "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). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
Notes
[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.
External links
[edit]Media related to Biel/Bienne railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Biel/Bienne railway station – SBB