Biel/Bienne railway station

Biel/Bienne railway station (Bahnhof Biel; 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).

Long-distance
The following long-distance trains call at Biel/Bienne:


 * 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:


 * 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
The following Bern S-Bahn trains call at Biel/Bienne:


 * : half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.
 * : half-hourly service to Solothurn, with every other train continuing from Solothurn to Olten.
 * : rush-hour service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.