A small country town in NSW’s west is reeling after a one-year-old girl was hit by a freight train in what police believe was a tragic accident.

One-year-old Lily Chifor wandered from home into the path of a freight train on Friday night while playing with her sister in the tiny village of Baan Baa, near Narrabri.

The toddler’s family had just moved to the town a week ago.

For Lily and her sister Aria, there was so much to see and explore in their new home.

Police said the child was playing with a number of other children at the time of the accident.

“Our understanding is that the child was just playing. This is a really tragic case of a child that had gone to play in a bad location,” Oxley Police District Superintendent David Cooper said.

“The child was with a number of other childr

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