A train station is using taxis to take passengers from one platform to another, it emerged yesterday. Rail bosses have opened a pounds 5.5m extension at Newport's busy mainline station, but failed to lay on access for disabled people, elderly passengers or mums with pushchairs.

By NO BYLINE COMMUTERS and Christmas revellers faced lengthy delays at Edinburgh's Waverley Station when a train took off without its passengers.

By MICHAEL HILL ALBANY, N.Y. - A teenager who died after falling through the gap between a commuter train and a station platform had been drinking and pulled away from people who tried to help her, a state panel concluded.

By Lena H Sun, Washington Post Staff Writer Tired of rushing to the Metro station only to see your train pulling away and the platform sign saying the next one is in 12 minutes? Good news. Riders will now be able to find out when trains are arriving at stations before hoofing it to the platform.

By John Revill A Midland metal working firm has won work to supply platform screens for a metro system in France. Holden Aluminium Technologies (HAT), which employs 38 at its base in Herefordshire, hopes the deal could generate new opportunities in other transport systems around the world.