In the opening scenes the train pulling in shows the Headcorn "2L05", meaning an ordinary passenger train headed to Anglia, the train identified as service 05 of the day. Amin the station it suddenly reads 1N29, an express service headed to the North Eastwen region (although N ceased to be used in 1967), and identified as train 29 of the day.
However, by the time the film is set head-codes were no longer shown on locomotives by BR and all had been set to '0000' or plated over with lights, so neither head-code is correctly shown anyway.
However, by the time the film is set head-codes were no longer shown on locomotives by BR and all had been set to '0000' or plated over with lights, so neither head-code is correctly shown anyway.
When Carty gets Elvis on the guest list, Elvis is wearing a 'The Crow' t-shirt depicting Brendon Lee as Eric Draven. That movie came out in 1994 whereas this movie is set in 1979.
At the end of the film Paul Carty is walking away from a railway bridge with a train passing overhead. This is an electric Merseyrail trail painted silver and yellow. This new color scheme was introduced only 10 years ago. In 1979 the trains were painted blue and yellow.
In the Probe Records scene, a copy of the Manuel Gottsching album "E2E4" can be seen on the wall. The film is set in 1979 but the album wasn't released until 1984.
When the characters Carty and Elvis talk about Berlin and counterfeit coins during a scene in a workshop, there appears to be several American Car License Plates attached to the workshop wall. As the film is set in 1979, one particular plate is the State of Wyoming and the plate colour scheme was issued many years later from 1992 to 1999.
The station of departure shown twice in the film is Bolton Street, Bury South. Not in Birkenhead or Wirral.
The "scouse" accents of nearly all the characters are clearly fake.