PARKING will be at a premium at Cleveland train station for the next four months while the terminus undergoes a $1.2 million upgrade.
No date has been set for the start of the work but the revamp will start this month.
The work includes building a new entrance and ticket counter, installing new fare gates and lighting, upgrading the closed-circuit television system and renovating the toilets.
The biggest change will be the installation of fare gates.
Once they are installed, customers will have to use their go card or get their paper ticket verified by station staff to enter and leave the station.
"We expect the upgrade of Cleveland station to take about four months, weather permitting," a QR spokesman said.
"During that time, carparking could be impacted and customers may experience restricted access to the entrance of the station and the toilets.
"However, Queensland Rail will advise in advance. We hope customers will be patient while we build a better station," the spokesman said.
Cleveland station has CCTV cameras but extra cameras will be installed to cover the new entrance area.
Additional lighting will also be installed inside and outside the new entrance.
It will be the station's first major overhaul since 1987, when the line between Lota and Cleveland re-opened after it was closed in 1960.
The track from Manly to the original Cleveland station first opened in 1889.
That original Cleveland station was later renamed West Cleveland and then Cleveland Central after the track was extended in 1897.
Another station, called Raby Bay, near where the current station is, was opened in Cleveland in 1914.
