Transfer of shares held in treasury

16 March 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 16 March 2009 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,638 ordinary shares for
the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006B scheme at a price of 444 pence
per share. The shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 272,674 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,794,496.