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