Director Shareholding

National Express Group PLC
20 November 2002

National Express Group PLC (the 'Company') announces that on 20 November 2002
the Trustee of the National Express Group Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust')
transferred 115 shares to West Midlands Employees Shareholding Trustees Limited
to be held under trust for the benefit of participants of the WMT Approved
Profit Sharing Scheme.  Following this transfer, the Trust holds a total
interest in the Company of 1,777,026 shares.



As employees of the Company and its subsidiaries are potential beneficiaries
under the Trust, the executive directors of the Company, Messrs P M White, R
O'Toole and W P Rollason, in their capacity as members of the class of potential
beneficiaries under the Trust, are deemed to have an interest in the shares held
by the Trust pursuant to the Companies Act 1985.




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