A rather stupid idea when the result of salty sea air speeds up rusting by an enormous factor. I do hope the nameplates were removed BEFORE going on display! Otherwise some light fingered Harry would have had them removed using a Whitworth spanner.
The nameplates were in place when it was stored at Steamport Railway Museum in Southport.
It is now stored out of public view by Liverpool Museum Trust.

Cecil Raikes is one of a class of nine engines built by Beyer Peacock amp; Co in 1885 for working trains through the tunnel of the Mersey Railway between Liverpool and Birkenhead.
The Mersey Railway opened between Green Lane station in Birkenhead and James Street station in Liverpool in 1886, via Birkenhead Central and Hamilton Square stations, both in Birkenhead. In 1888 a branch to Birkenhead Park station opened, with a connection to the Wirral Railway. This was followed in 1891 by an extension from Green Lane to Rock Ferry with a connection to the Birkenhead Railway. In 1892 the tunnel was extended from James Street to a new Low Level station at Liverpool Central. The total length of the tunnel was 3.12 miles and by 1890 it was carrying 10 million passengers a year.
Cecil Raikes was one of the initial batch of eight locomotives delivered to the Mersey Railway by Beyer Peacock and Co Ltd, of Gorton, Manchester, prior to opening. With sever gradients very powerful engines were required, and these were among the largest of the day.
The severe gradients out of the tunnel at each end (1 in 27 and 1 in 30) required extremely powerful steam locomotives but they proved an uncomfortable way to travel underground and as a result were not very popular. Condensers were fitted to convert the enginersquo;s exhaust steam back into water and so prevent the tunnel being filled with steam. Unfortunately, these caused operational problems and smoke was still a problem.
To counteract this problem the Mersey Railway was the first steam railway in Britain to be converted to electric traction in May 1903.