Departing with the 10.42 Newton Abbot-Paddington This is Red Cow crossing at the eastern side of Exeter's St . Davids station , manned in earlier times by a crossing keeper who appears in the many earlier photographs of steam locomotives running down through this location but who , at the date of this view , seems to have been dispensed with . Warship D 829 Magpie heads away from the station past a Hymek which I suspect is the St. Davids station pilot and which would have been tasked as a banking engine in assisting workings on the formidable bank between here and Central station