Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
7 September 2000


The Company has been informed that on 7 September 2000, the Trustee of the
National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 71 ordinary
shares at £4.80 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 1,297,104 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.'