Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

National Express Group PLC
7 August 2000

                                                                              
                          National Express Group PLC                          


The Company has been informed that on 28 July 2000, the Trustee of the
National Express Group Qualifying Employee Share Trust transferred 1,041
ordinary shares at £4.27 and 428 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 1,307,821
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.