The Waterford Dungarvan & Lismore Railway company opened a line that connected all three of these towns in 1878. The line, which eventually ran from Mallow to Waterford was taken over by the GSWR and became the main Rosslare-Cork line. Passenger services on the Mallow to Waterford line ceased in 1967, but the section just west of Dungarvan town (Ballinacourty) to Waterford remained in regular use until 1982 serving the magnesite plant there. The tracks were eventually taken up in the late 1990s. As for Dungarvan Station, which had closed in 1967, the station buildings were later demolished and sadly nothing of it survives today, a fertiliser factory now occupies the former station site. The small river bridge just east of it survives however and has now been turned into a walk way, which also incorporates the former rail causeway just east of Dungarvan town.

The 1967 cine archive pictures are from the TV series 'Off The Beaten Track', shown some years ago now, and are as yet the only comprehensive rail cine footage of the Dungarvan area.