Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
18 April 2000



                          National Express Group PLC                          

The Company has been informed that on 17 April 2000, the Trustee of the
National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 206
ordinary shares at £4.80 and 281 ordinary shares at £4.27, 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 1,342,025
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, Messrs P White, R H Brown, R O'Toole and W Rollason, 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.