Colonel De Grey of the York Hussars gave his name to the De Grey Rooms, which were built as the Officers' Mess in 1842, by G T Andrews, and paid for by public subscription. The building was used by the Railway King, George Hudson for many of his railway meetings. It has been an appropriate home for the tourist information centre as the tourism industry was born of rail travel. Within a couple of years of the arrival, in 1839, of the first railways in York, excursions were arriving from as far off as Manchester, Leicester, Nottingham and even London. The railways also brought both lavish theatre productions and wider audiences to York. The Theatre Royal flourished and was rebuilt four times during the 19th Century. The Art Gallery hosted two Fine Art and Industrial exhibitions in 1860 and 1879, attracting 338,000 and 530,000 visitors respectively, demonstrating the new mass mobility of the railway age.