• take flash photographs and/or use a tripod or other camera support
equipment
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Last year for a non-commercial photo project I was doing I asked if I
could use a tripod at East Putney Station because I wanted to take
long exposure photo as a train came into the station.

They said yes - provided
It was not at rush-hour.
I did not obstruct anybody
I did not use flash
I kept all equipment behind the yellow line.

I was quite happy to comply with these conditions and had a good chat
with the station manager who was keen on photography himself.

The most common problem I've found is that staff tend to shout "no
photographs" etc and refuse to believe that non-commercial photography
is allowed. If you then refer them to "Standard Sa109" of the LU
Working Manual, they then seem to take offence at being proved wrong,
or exposed as liars, and then change tack by saying that you must now
leave the station because you're creating a nuisance, when of course
it is them who are doing the hassling! Also I've found that by
refering to official entries both in the Working Manual and Traffic
Crcular, this often brings the response "Are you staff? You should
know better! Why haven't you signed in?". "Because I'm not on duty and
have no more rights than an ordinary passenger" I reply, to which they
they counter with "Well then you've no right to take photographs" and
so it goes around in circles... I was prepared to take a concilitory
approach immediately after 7/7 because many Londoners, including LU
staff, were traumatised to a greater or lesser degree but enough is
enough! Network Rail's website welcomes enthuisasts at its stations,
New York lifted its post 9/11 ban on Subway photography. Maybe I'll
stop photographing LU when they stop filming me in every ticket hall,
on every platform, in increasing number of cars, and tracking me 24/7
by Oyster!!!

wrote:

New York lifted its post 9/11 ban on Subway photography.

New York never implemented a post 9/11 ban on subway photography.

One was proposed several years ago. It did not pass.

There used to be a permit requirement for personal photography, but it
was eliminated in the 1990's (1994, I think).
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA