Biel/Bienne railway station
Biel/Bienne railway station (; ) 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:

 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 (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  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 , with every other train continuing from Solothurn to . : rush-hour service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp. See also

History of rail transport in Switzerland
Rail transport in Switzerland

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Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1923
Railway stations in the canton of Bern
Swiss Federal Railways stations
Transport in Biel/Bienne