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The sentence uses "could," not "will." It is speaking of a FREE decision that one MIGHT choose to make after riding the train north.
To try to interpret the second sentence as if the first wasn't there and bore no relation to the sentence that follows it is absurd.
Any intelligent reader will grasp that "Visit a garden . . ." in the second sentence means "by utilizing the country's RPTN to get there."
Again, the sentence uses "could," not "will," and it is speaking of a free decision that one might choose to make after doing something else. I disagree wholeheartedly with the Australian's sense that something is wrong with the example as written.
The example of the OP is open to interpretation, even if we consider the preceding context: There might be a train station entrance in the garden. Also, the sentence as it is bears no relevance to the scenario where one is close enough to the garden, in which case the person would not need to take the train to the garden.
The revised sentence avoids the above problems.