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  • Getty Images Late on Sunday, members of the Rail Maritime and Transport, or RMT, union and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association began a 24-hour walkout over around 800 job cuts which will affect mainly ticket-office staff.

    London Commuters Face More Tube Strikes Javier Espinoza 2010

  • It also allows the Caps ticket-office access, for the first time, to the building's database of club - and suite-owners.

    The Caps' and Wizards' joint ticket operation 2010

  • No person connected with these railways wears a distinguishing dress, and the stations, or “depots” as they are called, are generally of the meanest description, mere wooden sheds, with a ticket-office very difficult to discover.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Checkshill station with its little lights, to the ticket-office window, and so to the train.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • After lunch our guide lapsed again to our conductor and reappeared with his motor-bus and took us to the station, where he overcame the scruples of the lady in the ticket-office concerning our wish to return to Madrid by the Sud – Express instead of the ordinary train.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • For the matter of that, I do not know why I employed an interpreter at Madrid to get my ticket stamped at the ticket-office; it required merely the presentation of the ticket at the window; but the interpreter seemed to wish it and it enabled him to practise his English with me, and I realized that he must live.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Kim pointed to the ticket-office — ‘who will give thee a paper to take thee to Umballa.’

    Kim 2003

  • The stationmaster says that neither of the ticket-office clerks remembers anyone answering the description.

    Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955

  • In the meantime an inquisitive youngster, left to his own devices by his mother who was also in line before the ticket-office window, was creeping about the floor in search of diversion.

    Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon Lucy M. Blanchard

  • It seemed an eternity before he could get anywhere near the ticket-office window, and he completely lost what little temper he had when

    Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon Lucy M. Blanchard

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