It handles about 4.3 million passengers annually according to the estimates of the SNCF, making it the least busy mainline station in Paris.

The service, typically operating overnight, were also known as "train auto-couchettes" (TAC) because passengers rode in couchette-style sleeping cars.

[4] Auto-train services were operated between Paris Bercy to Avignon-Sud, Marseille-Saint-Charles, Toulon, Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël and Nice-Ville stations.

[5] Users of the trains asked Conseil d'État to intervene and move services back but the appeal was rejected in March 2014 with the council siding with SNCF's concerns about crowding at Gare de Lyon.

In an effort to ease tensions, the SNCF agreed in September 2016 to use all of the names, renaming the station Gare de Paris Bercy Bourgogne – Pays d'Auvergne.