Directors' Dealings

NATIONAL EXPRESS GROUP PLC
8 September 1999


                  National Express Group PLC ('the Company')                  

The Company has been informed that today (8 September 1999), the Trustee of
the National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 268
ordinary shares at a price of £2.57, to satisfy the exercise of options under
the National Express Group 1992 Savings Related Share Scheme.  Following this
transfer, the National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust holds a
total interest in the Company of 23,112 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 R H
Brown, 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.