Directors' Dealings

NATIONAL EXPRESS GROUP PLC
26 July 1999


                  National Express Group Plc ('the Company')                  

The Company has been informed that today the Trustee of the National Express
Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 1,608 ordinary shares at a
price of 257p per share to satisfy the exercise of options under the National
Express Group 1992 Savings Related Share Scheme.  Following this transfer, the
National Express Group Qualifying Employees Share Trust holds a total interest
in the Company of 24,314 shares.  As all employees of the Company and its
subsidiaries are potential beneficiaries under the Trust on an equal basis,
the executive directors of the Company, Mr P White and Mr C Child, in their
capacity as members of the class of potential beneficiaries under the Trust,
are deemed to have an interest in these shares pursuant to the Companies Act
1985.