Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
5 April 2000

The Company has been informed that on 29 March 2000, the Trustee of the National
Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 301 ordinary shares at
£4.80 and 1,911 ordinary shares at £4.27, to satisfy the exercise of options
under the National Express Group 1992 Savings Related Scheme.  Following this
transfer, the National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust holds a
total interest in the Company of 1,037,512 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.