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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:38:59 in uk.transport.london,
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On Apr 17, 2:00*pm, Mizter T wrote:

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We had a discussion on this last week. By my reckoning the crux of the
matter is the muddled use of terminology - on the LU Film Office
webpage (linked to above) they speak of "student or non-professional"
permits, the problem bit being "non-professional" which is not defined
anywhere. For as long as the meaning of that phrase is not explained
properly then the occasional hysteria can be expected.


See:
http://www.johnband.org/blog/2008/02...don-undergroun
d-is-permitted/

John,
Many thanks for that. I have no current wish to take photos on the
underground and am mainly concerned by the muddle.

I believe the page on general photography (I failed in copying that long
URL. I really should learn to generate a tinyurl takes too narrow a
view in stating "... you must NOT use flash or lights on any of our
platforms".
I believe the relevant text is in
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...age-march-2009
..pdf
where it says "4.5. For safety reasons, on our buses, in our bus
stations and on Underground stations and trains you must not: ... take
flash photographs and/or use a tripod or other camera support equipment
...."

I raised a question on such confusion with TfL before. I shall try and
follow up on it.

BTW, How did you find the long URL document and have you found any way
to navigate to it? Is it as authoritative as you might hope?
--
Walter Briscoe