On the morning of 17 October 1961, eighteen-year-old Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) was waiting on the platform of Dartford railway station for the train to take him the 16 miles into central London, where he was a mediocre student at the highly respected London School of Economics.
He said they managed to switch lines which slowed the runaway train so it came to rest as it reached an incline near Warren Street station in central London.