Is There Train Service?

[Suefranss]

Hi,

 

Our cruise will be leaving from Montreal, but we will be starting in Toronto.  Is there any train service from Toronto to Montreal?

 

thank you.

[Host Carolyn]

Via Rail Canada has service from Toronto to Montreal. Just Google it and you can put in departure and arrival stations, dates etc

[LHT28]

if you want a faster trip fly from Toronto Island airport YTZ (downtown)  to Montreal

look at Porter air

[Nitemare]

It is a very long ride, and the air option might even be cheaper.

 

Porter is a great little airline that flies from an island in the lake right next to downtown Toronto.  So convenient.

[Twickenham]

The train between Toronto and Montreal, depending on which service you take, is roughly 5 hours. YTZ is indeed a very convenient airport for downtown TO (and I've heard good things about Porter), but you'll still land at YUL, which is quite a ways from downtown Montreal. So time-wise it's probably not much different. And searching a random date for next September (when I assume the OP is travelling), the train can be booked for as little as $40. A flight on Porter would cost $160.

 

And both train stations are really in the heart of downtown, convenient to many hotels - plan it right, and you don't even need a taxi at either end, you could stay just a short walk from either station.

 

The Man in Seat 61 actually did this route a few years ago:

 

 

Edited January 20, 2019 by Twickenham