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/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 50,800 passengers per working day (in 2023).

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

InterCity / InterRegio: half-hourly service to , Zürich Hauptbahnhof, and ; hourly service to . InterRegio: half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to .

Regional The following regional trains call at Biel/Bienne:

RegioExpress: hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to . daily service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line on weekends during the high season to . Regio: hourly service to . hourly service to at various times during the day. hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to La Chaux-de-Fonds and via .

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

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

History of rail transport in Switzerland Rail transport in Switzerland

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