Rail prosecutions: The six minute train journey that became a long legal nightmare
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BBC Sarah Cook was threatened with huge fines and jail over a train ticketIt should have been a quick, simple rail journey.Nearly two years ago, Sarah Cook hopped on a train at Wombwell Station, just outside her pet shop in South Yorkshire, to travel one stop to Barnsley. A mere six minutes. "I tried to buy a ticket on the platform and the machine wouldn’t accept my bank card," she told the BBC. "I thought: 'It…
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