In September 2024, Wigan Council announced plans to invest £380k to get the popular woodland railway back on track, since its temporary closure in 2020.
The railway, which first opened in 1986 and takes a 1.6k route through the upper plantation woodlands, stopping at two stations, is expected to be back up and running by 2027.
When the railway was last in operation in 2019/20 it carried more than 20,000 passengers.
Thanks to the hard work of the volunteers in the Haigh Woodland Railway Supporters Association (HWRSA) work has been ongoing in the background to ensure that the investment can have an immediate impact to bring this much-loved attraction back to life.