Transfer of shares held in treasury

19 October 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 19 October 2009 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 35,941 ordinary shares at
a price of 325 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 1,132,093 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 480,935,077.