Transfer of shares held in treasury

26 September 2012

                                FirstGroup plc                                 

                      Transfer of shares held in treasury                      

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 26 September 2012 it
transferred to the Trustees of the FirstGroup Employee Benefit Trust (the
"EBT") 100,000 ordinary shares. The shares were all formerly held as treasury
shares. The price paid was 429 pence per share, the price reflecting the
original price paid for the shares when they were formerly purchased by the
Company and transferred into treasury.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a
total of 161,375 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of
ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,905,795.

The EBT now holds 119,733 unallocated FirstGroup plc shares.

FirstGroup plc shares held by the EBT are used to satisfy the exercise of share
awards granted to participants in the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme
and Executive Annual Bonus Plan.

The transaction took place at 395 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5RP.