You can get from Waterford to Rosslare for the evening ferries departure and similarly you can get a connection from the ferry in the morning
Evening ferries are 20:45 and 21:15, evening train from Waterford leaves 17:20 arrives 18:35 a little early but still a reasonable connection. Obviously there is sense in putting the departure time in Waterford to 17:40.
The fact is there has always been a 18:30 departure from Dublin it has always arrived Rosslare about 21:30 Its been like that for 30+ years yet the ferry companies set a timetable to depart before it arrives. If the 18:30 left earlier it would leave 100+ commuters without a way home to Wicklow, Arklow etc and that is daily repeat business which is what is extremely important to maintain.
You can't have the 18:30 leave earlier, it already leaves Dublin too early to start with. Anyone near Dublin will travel via Dun Laoghaire or Dublin Port which have more services and shorter crossings (Rosslare's fast craft is on DL - Holyhead till the Summer)
Anyone I know who has used the rail/sail option leaves in the evening, travels overnight and arrives the following morning, which is 100% possible in both directions if you start from Waterford or from the UK side to Waterford.
We need to focus on positives here the fact is the connections are there to the south Wexford line and with only a single train a day it does quite well in integration terms
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