Transfer of shares held in treasury

8 September 2014

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 8 September 2014 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 718 ordinary
shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2012 scheme at a price
of 117.339 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 157,229 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 1,204,769,527.