British Railways
All but one of the original Collett Halls entered British Railways service in 1948, the exception being No. 4911 Bowden Hall which took a direct hit during a bombing raid on the Plymouth area in April 1941 and was broken up. Official withdrawals began in 1959 with the prototype Saint Martin. Its accumulated mileage, both in its original form and rebuilt form, was a remarkable 2,092,500 miles.
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