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Getting to Torbay

Airports
St. John's (YYT), 6 km
  • Halifax → Torbay
    900 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · C$210–320
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  • Quebec → Torbay
    1395 km · quickest by air, 7h 25m · C$250–380
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  • Portland → Torbay
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

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No local-transport research exists yet for Torbay

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Torbay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTraffic arriving from out-of-province normally crosses by ferry from North Sydney (Nova Scotia) to either Port-aux-Basques or Argentia, then follows TCH 1 east to town.
  • Get in(It's also possible to cross from Labrador via a ferry at Blanc-Sablon Québec, but the Trans-Labrador Highway to Quebec Route 389 in Labrador City-Fermont is no easy journey.) The island portion of the province is accessible by several ferries leaving North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
  • Get inFrom there, you can take a 5- to 6-hour ferry ride to Port-aux-Basques, at the southwest corner of Newfoundland, and drive 905 km across the island to St.
  • Get inFrom mid-June through September, you can take a 14- to 17-hour ferry ride from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Argentia, Newfoundland, which is 131 km from St.
  • Get inFerry schedules and reservation information are available from Marine Atlantic.

From Wikivoyage: St. John's, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,307 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,799 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    3,060 km
  4. 04
    South Uist and the southern Outer HebridesGB

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    3,185 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    3,233 km

If you know how people move in Torbay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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