Employee Benefit Trust

National Express Group PLC
20 October 2005


The independent trustee of the National Express Group Employee Benefit Trust
(the 'Trust') notified the Company on 19 October 2005 that it had on the same
day transferred 837 ordinary 5p shares at £4.17 to satisfy the exercise of
options by employees under the Company's Savings Related Share Option Scheme.

Following this transaction the Trust holds a total of 1,154,259 shares in the
Company in which the executive directors of the Company, Messrs P.M. White, R.
O'Toole and A.C. Walker are deemed to be technically interested for Companies
Act purposes.  They were not however connected with the above transactions.


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