Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
12 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 11 April 2000 the Trustee of the National
Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Tryst (the 'Trust') purchased 30,000
ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 525p per share.  The purchase was
notified to the Company on 11 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'