The station is terminus of the Tren de las Sierras service operated by state-owned Trenes Argentinos.

By the 1960s the line had its golden age when it carried a big number of passengers from Valle de Punilla, as well as tourists coming from the cities of Córdoba, Rosario and Buenos Aires at attractive prices.

As part of a national railway privatisation plan, carried out under the presidency of Carlos Menem, a concession to operate the line was granted to local consortium Grupo Alcázar,[3] which operated the line (also naming it Tren de las Sierras)[4] from Córdoba to Capilla del Monte (100-km length) but services suddenly stopped in 2001.

[5] Three years later the Government of Córdoba revoked the contract of concession (by Provincial Decree n° 1274) blaming the concessionary for the bad conditions of the service and poor maintenance.

[8][9] In March 2015, this section of the railway was re-opened by the Minister of the Interior and Transport, Florencio Randazzo[10] With Alta Córdoba station virtually abandoned, the Municipality of Córdoba requested the National Government permission to move the City Council to the station building.