{"id":64565,"date":"2026-09-09T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64565"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:47:42","slug":"brian-turner-1940-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64565","title":{"rendered":"Brian Turner 1940-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Turner, author of many books mainly on the tramways of the Fylde Coast, has passed away after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many reading these pages will have multiple books by Brian Turner. Seeing his name at the bottom of a book\u2019s cover was a clear sign of quality and he remained a prolific author in recent years with several complementary titles on tramways across the Fylde Coast. With many of these books only have limited print runs you knew you had to be quick in order to secure a copy.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his family at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Turner, author of many books mainly on the tramways of the Fylde Coast, has passed away after a short illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64566,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64565\/revisions\/64566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}