Biel/Bienne railway station
Biel/Bienne | |||||
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 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 / 47.13288500°N 7.24291806°E | ||||
| Elevation | 437 m (1,434 ft) | ||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||
| Line(s) | |||||
| Tracks | 12 | ||||
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| Construction | |||||
| Platform levels | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Fare zone | libero: 300 | ||||
| Website | Bahnhof Biel / La gare de Bienne | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1923 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018 | 53,700 per working day[1] | ||||
| Rank | 12 of 1735 | ||||
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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.
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 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:[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.
- S31: rush-hour service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
- ^ a b c "Abfahrt/Départ: Bahnhof/Gare de Biel/Bienne" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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
