Torquay Flights

fast bus’s have fast links connecting Exeter, Torquay & Plymouth and Easyrider services with kneeling suspension have easy access for disabled customers with wheelchairs or mums with buggies.

A normal ferry service runs from Torquay to Brixham & back, taking 30 minutes. It is surely is a grand way to get across the Bay, leaving you to enjoy some of the best sea views in the country. Riverlink run local ferry trips on the River Dart as well as a tour to Greenway Gardens, the home of the late Agatha Christie, now open as a National Trust Garden.

Make use of the vibrantly coloured Road Train, which runs a rounded route along Torquay seafront & back down through the town centre - enabling you to give your feet a well-deserved rest!

National Express Booking Line - 08750 80 80 80

South West Trains - Assistance Line 0845 6050440

All local bus services - Traveline 0870 608 2 608

From the seafront in Torquay you can go on a horse and cart to Cockington village,it seats up to five people and costs about ?1.60 each per person.

Babbacombe Cliff Railway is a 730 foot long funicular railway, which takes you from the top of the Babbacombe Downs to Oddicombe Beach 240 feet below. The railway was opened on April 1st 1926, and apart from the war years (for security reasons?) it has run every year from Easter to September.

Now owned by Torbay council, these two small compartments carry over 250,000 passengers each season.

From Torquay seafront, next to the Livermead Hotel you can pick up a horse & carriage to the beautiful medieval village of Cockington. Clopping through the country lanes in a wooded valley is a must to get you ready for the Olde Worlde thatched atmosphere of Cockington.

Alternatively you can get a horse & carriage from the village square to Cockington Court, through the gorgeous park land.

I can not remember the exact prices, but it is cheap & well worth the money.

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Having free train travel at the time, I obviously travelled to Torquay by rail. Having said that, I could not have chosen better anyway, as the hotel (The Lindens), was just along the road, (Bampfylde Road), from the railway station.

Also, a trip to Paignton can be made by train for a modest fare. Paignton station is right in the centre of town and is also the start for the Torbay Steam Railway, a steam preservation line that runs to Kingswear.