Early in the morning, the train arrives in Astara.

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Waiting alongside the train tracks as the perennially late locomotive rumbles into hearing distance long before it arrives.

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The 26-year-old, who arrives for an undisclosed fee, will train with United in December but cannot play until the January transfer window opens.

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The train station where Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) arrives in a swirl of sinister smoke still stands on Railroad Sq downtown.

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