Director Shareholding

National Express Group PLC
18 February 2003

National Express Group PLC (the 'Company') announces that on 18 February 2003
the Trustee of the National Express Group Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust')
transferred 558 shares to WMT 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 1,776,353 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 and R
O'Toole, 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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