He bought a ticket for an eastbound Amtrak train, but approaching Grand Junction, Colo.

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Seventy percent of the first weekend gross for Alice in Wonderland came from 3-D ticket sales, 68% for How to Train Your Dragon and 60% for Toy Story 3, according to BTIG Research (subscription required to follow the link).

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Women were forced into Magdalene laundries for a crime as minor as not paying for a train ticket, the McAleese report found.

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He was arrested in Mainz for being on a train without a ticket and was extradited to Italy to face murder charges.

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User statistics for Dorking West suggest nearly everyone buys their train ticket from the town's two other stations, Dorking and Dorking Deepdene.

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The train company said any person who held a season ticket for travel on London Midland for at least 28 days between 10 September and 8 December 2012 and was affected by disruption is eligible for the free travel.

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The good people there tell me the formal payment for my ticket from my credit card company arrived four minutes after my train left the station.

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There have been warnings that commuter train companies reliant on regulated fares could be heading for financial difficulties should ticket prices fall and that some might cut services in response.

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George Osborne was forced to pay for an upgrade after sitting in a first-class train carriage with a standard-class ticket.

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Britain has opted for an airline-style pricing structure, which means it has the widest range of train ticket prices in the world.

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