Transfer of shares held in treasury

29 September 2009

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") announces that on 29 September 2009 it
transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 23,087
ordinary shares at a price of 325 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 935,109 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,132,061.