Ban on photographing cameras etc - why bother?

Not that I have any particular interest in doing so, but is there really
much point in National Rail's insistence that photographers on stations
must not photograph security equipment such as CCTV cameras? For example...

I was hanging around on platform 1 at Stourbridge Junction today waiting
for a train to Kidderminster, and idly noticed the enormous camera on the
Kidderminster end of the building, aimed at the far end of the car park. In
five minutes I think I counted ten vantage points - none on railway land -
where someone with a reasonably good zoom lens could have taken a detailed
photo.

Slightly connected with this, the other day I was in Evesham, where the
NatWest Bank is housed in a wonderful 15th-century timber-framed building,
which somehow hasn't had its ground-floor windows replaced by plate glass.
Any number of people must photograph that every day, even though when I was
little I was always told by my parents that photographing banks close-up
was frowned upon.

Finally, it's clear from the briefest perusal of Flickr that there are
already a *lot* of close-ups of railway CCTV cameras out there "in the
wild". Presumably anyone with any nefarious intentions would be able to get
hold of such pics incredibly easily anyway in almost all cases - so, again,
why bother with the restriction?

--
Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.
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