Passengers at nine West Midland rail stations are to benefit from a £250,000 investment in "more vandal-proof" waiting facilities.
Plans to replace platform shelters will now be upgraded so Central Trains and public transport promoter Centro can provide more comfortable and welcoming stations.
The West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority, which sets policy for Centro, is to approve the extra funding at a committee meeting on Monday. It is part of a £2 million package negotiated from Central Trains at the time of the company's franchise two-year extension, announced last year.
More than half of the money is to be spent on providing passengers with better information.
Centro has now added its own funding to the planned investment in new waiting shelters.
Coun John Woodhall (Con Halesowen South), the WMPTA project development committee chairman, said: "This is a good example where we have negotiated a better deal for passengers and then added our own Centro-PTA funding so that the overall benefits are even greater.
"More and more people are using local rail services. Making public transport more attractive and easier to use is important in our campaign to tackle congestion."
Stations to benefit from the new shelters are: Hampton-in-Arden, Cradley Heath, Lye, Barnt Green, Widney Manor, Four Oaks, Perry Barr, Stechford and Hamstead.
* Centro director general Rob Donald has been made new chair of the national regional transport executive lobby. The seven-member Passenger Transport Executive Group represents passenger transport bodies in major conurbations.
