Parys Lanlehin was caught using a return train ticket on the wrong day - and going in the wrong direction - on June 4, 2014.
The University of Nottingham student was issued with a £20 penalty ticket on the Nottingham to Beeston train, but the court heard it was never paid.
Lanlehin, of Walthamstow, London, then signed a declaration stating she was unaware of legal proceedings taking place in Nottingham at Stratford Magistrates Court.
On Wednesday, the student was found guilty of boarding a train without a valid ticket after she failed to attend the case at Nottingham Magistrates Court.
She was fined £220 with £300 prosecution costs and a £22 government surcharge.
She was also ordered to pay the £20 penalty, which had been imposed when she was caught on the train.
Magistrates gave Lanlehin two weeks to pay and issued a collection order, which could lead to bailiffs removing items from her home to cover the payment.
It comes as earlier this year a passenger was fined almost £800 after he was caught without a train ticket - that would have cost just £2.70.
Torbay magistrates fined the 49-year-old £550 in January and ordered him to pay £215 costs - and the £2.70 fare in compensation.
That's a total of £767.70 due to the court, much more than the £2.70 it would have cost him for the journey in the south west.
Davies was one of 19 passengers who were ordered to pay a total of nearly £12,000 in fines and costs by the court this week.
Most were for not paying low-priced fares while travelling on Great Western Railway trains.
Eighteen-year-old Jade Agett from Paignton was stopped at Newton Abbott and found without a ticket for carriage, that would have cost £6.70.
She was ordered to pay £656.70 by the court.
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