Trainspotters watching Steeltown Murders have pointed up an error in one episode of the show.
The four-part miniseries is based on the actual story of the 1973 ‘Saturday Night Strangler’ killings in Port Talbot, South Wales.
Three adolescent girls were strangled and killed over the period of three months, prompting a nationwide manhunt for the perpetrator.
The crimes were solved three decades later because to advances in DNA testing, making it the first known example of a serial murderer in Wales.
The series chronicles the events over the course of the cases’ resolution, shifting between 1973 and 2002.
However, observant viewers couldn’t help but notice an out-of-place element while watching.
Using CGI to depict a train travelling down the railway line behind one of the streets in the Welsh seaside town, trainspotters pointed out that the locomotive shown had not existed in 1973.
The huge emblem on the engine indicated that the train was a British Rail Class 56, which did not enter service until 1976.
One viewer pointed out the error on social media.
‘BBC at it again! Who cares if the trains are right in historical dramas? A large logo 56 in 1973 in Steeltown Murders and the double arrow is back to front!’ they posted.
‘The arrow was the right way round later when the (CGI) train was going the other way. #getthetrainsright..’ they added.
‘And thats the second time we’ve seen a Class 56 in Large Logo in South Wales in 1973. Its beginning to grate…,’ someone else said.
Another added: ‘Steeltown Murders was good, but the wrong logo on the train completely ruined it for me and I will never watch the BBC again.’
One other fan simply said: ‘A Class 56? With wraparound yellow ends? In 1973?’
Philip Glenister (Life On Mars, State Of Play) and Steffan Rhodri (In My Skin, Gavin & Stacey) star in the series as DCI Paul Bethell and Phil ‘Bach’ Rees, with their younger selves played by Scott Arthur (Good Omens, Borg McEnroe) and Siôn Alun Davies (The Sandman, Hidden).
The synopsis for the first episode explained: ‘As the CID reopen an investigation into three murders from 1973, DCI Paul Bethell tries to piece together a past that has haunted both him and a community for almost 30 years.’
It added that ‘as new advances in DNA technology provide the possibility of answers, Paul reflects on his time as a junior officer, when he became convinced that the murderer of a teenager would soon strike again’.
Steeltown Murders is streaming on BBC iPlayer.
Source My Celebrity Life.
