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Book assisted travel

Whatever your travel needs, we’re happy to help you aboard and on your way. Need a helping hand? Our friendly and experienced staff will be available to give you the assistance you need. 

The majority of passengers travel on our network without booking assistance (“turn up and go”)

If you do wish to book assistance our call centre colleagues are happy to help you with planning your journey.

You can contact us at any time of the day for assisted travel guidance or to request an assisted travel booking. To make sure we have staff available to help you, we recommend you book at least two hours in advance of travelling.

If your journey involves another train company, we may need to confirm part of your journey with them. If this is the case, we will discuss options with you.

If you do choose to travel “turn up and go” without booking assistance in advance, please make yourself known to a member of staff or use a Help Point when you arrive at the station.

How to get assistance 

Give us a few details about your travel plans and we’ll make the arrangements for you.

If you're booking a journey for the first time in a while and would like to talk it through, please call our Assisted travel team.

Have questions or need to book help sooner?

Give us a call:

Telephone 0800 058 2844

Textphone 0800 138 1018

Our assisted travel helpline is open 24 hours a day, except on Christmas Day.

Our Accessible Travel Policy documents are available here in alternative formats including audio and large print versions.

Printed copies of our Making Rail Accessible document will shortly be available from all staffed stations across our network.

Book travel assistance

So we can arrange and carry out assistance on your behalf, your personal and journey data will be gathered and held within the assisted travel booking system for two years, and made available to all Train Operating Companies and Network Rail for all your bookings. If you do not wish for your data to be shared please contact us.

You can contact us at any time of the day for Assisted travel guidance or to request an assisted travel booking.

To make sure we have staff available to help you, we recommend you book at least two hours in advance of travelling.

If your journey involves another train company, we may need to confirm part of your journey with them. If this is the case, we will discuss options with you

Travel details

Outward journey

Departure date

Departure time

Return journey (optional)

Date of return journey

Time of return journey

Assistance details

At which points of the journey do you need assistance?

What type of assistance do you need?

Additional requirements

Your personal details will be held by the Go-Ahead Group on behalf of Great Northern. We will not pass on your personal information to any organisation outside of our Group of Companies (and Successor franchise or Secretary of State for Transport) for marketing purposes without your prior consent.

When you use our website, you trust us with your information. We use details about your journeys and your data to improve our communications to you. 

More travel help

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Getting to the station by taxi

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