 The Trans Canada Trail leaves St John's from the Railway Coastal Museum and follows the trackbed of the former Newfoundland Railway right across the Island, though it now starts at Cape Spear, continues to Fort Amherst, and connects at the station, via a footbridge, with the original mile zero at the Museum.The route from Cape Spear follows the East Coast Trail, which passes from Logy Bay in the north through St John's via Quidi Vidi, Signal Hill and the harbour.St.