Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
7 April 2000


National Express Group PLC 
Acquisition of Share by the Trustees of the 
National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust

National Express Group PLC (the 'Company') hereby gives notice pursuant to
Section 329 Companies Act 1985 (the 'Act') and paragraph 16.13 of the London
Stock Exchange Listing Rules that on 7 April 2000 the Trustee of the National
Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Tryst (the 'Trust') purchased 275,000
ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 504.5p per share.  The purchase
was notified to the Company on 7 April 2000.  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, Mr R O'Toole, Mr R
Brown and Mr W Rollason, in their capacity as members of the class of
potential beneficiaries under the Trust, are deemed to have acquired an
interest in these shares for the purposes of the Act'