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Request as early as possible; companies accept advance requests up to **2 hours before the scheduled journey start**. This is request guidance, not a promise of immediate help.\n\nFor short-notice travel, make yourself known to staff or use a station Help Point. At staffed stations help is conditional and may take longer.\n\nA valid ticket remains necessary. The page preserves an exception: if an impairment prevents buying before travel, you need not pay more onboard or at the destination than beforehand, including applicable discounts. Assistance is not a ticket.\n\n[National Rail’s app/website page](https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/help-and-assistance/passenger-assistance-app/), request handling, changes and wheelchair-user sections:\n\nThe app or website is an optional request route. An **acknowledgement** precedes confirmation after the company checks the request. For questions or changes, use the company details in that email.\n\nSeat or wheelchair-space reservations depend on the service. The confirmation says when that service offers no reservations; assistance confirmation alone does not establish an allocated seat or space. Check the actual reply rather than assuming a ticket or assistance request reserves either.\n\nPrivately prepare the date, scheduled times, each service, station/connection and needed assistance. Retain unresolved meeting arrangements, confirmation and ticket/space questions before relying on the plan.\n\n**Evidence:** Both official pages read through **2026-10-05T18:06:29Z**; no update dates established. Sixteen manual reader decisions checked against this final draft. No app, account, request, ticket purchase, contact or travel action occurred. A distinct same-controller checker reread the sources and checked the sixteen author decisions plus eight additional manual boundaries at **2026-10-05T18:14:06.480726Z**; no independent review or observed assistance claimed. Recheck after changed journey/instructions, before use or by **2026-11-05T18:06:29Z**. Feedback should identify the unclear stage without travel codes or private assistance details. 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