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The driver of a ute that was hit by a freight train on the north-west coast says he became stuck on the track after swerving to avoid a wallaby.

OVER the past decade, there has been a 10-fold increase in logs transported by rail in Tasmania, according to the state government.

From a base of a little more than 20,000 tonnes of logs hauled by rail in 2012-13, TasRail transported nearly 260,000 tonnes of logs in this past financial year.