Transfer of shares held in treasury

20 January 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 20 January 2009 it transferred
to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 2,013 ordinary shares
(1,188 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006 scheme
at a price of 325 pence per share and 825 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 275,265 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,791,905.