Transaction in Own Shares

16 March 2005

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Buyback of 200,000 ordinary shares                       

FirstGroup plc ('the Company') announces that on 16 March 2005 it purchased
200,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 340.0077 pence per
share.

The Company intends to hold these shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 4,805,000 of its
shares in treasury and has 398,751,321 shares in issue (including treasury
shares).