Transfer of shares held in treasury

1 February 2010

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 1 February 2010 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 161 ordinary shares for
the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence
per share. The shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 976,986 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,090,184.