Transaction in Own Shares

16 February 2005

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Buyback of 100,000 ordinary shares                       

FirstGroup plc ('the Company') announces that on 16 February 2005 it purchased
100,000 ordinary shares of 5p each at an average price of 354.4639p per share.

The Company intends to hold these shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 685,000 of its shares
in treasury and has 398,066,321 shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).