Transfer of shares held in treasury

16 February 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 16 February 2009 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 953 ordinary
shares (283 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006
scheme at a price of 325 pence per share and 670 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 274,312 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,792,858.