Purchase of Own Securities

FirstGroup PLC
9 November 1999



FirstGroup plc ('FirstGroup') announces that on 9th November 1999 it purchased
for cancellation 1,000,000 of its ordinary shares of 5p at a price of 282.5p
per ordinary share (being the then prevailing market price) from Cazenove &
Co.  Cazenove & Co. acquired these shares as principal from Mainline
Partnership Limited ('Mainline'), a wholly owned subsidiary of FirstGroup
earlier today. 

Mainline originally acquired the 1,000,000 shares in FirstGroup in January
1996 at the same time as FirstGroup purchased a 20% interest in Mainline. 
Following the acquisition by FirstGroup in July 1998 of the remaining 80% of
Mainline, these shares came into Group ownership.  FirstGroup has now
purchased these shares for cancellation pursuant to the authority given by
shareholders at the last AGM.  FirstGroup has no present intention of making
further purchases of its own shares under this authority.

9th November 1999