This is one of those individual preference / opinion questions. Yes LNER drivers are on a lot of money in comparison to GC and most other TOCS. However, it’s down to an individuals circumstances / preferences to answer this one. Need to know more about rosters, rest day patterns, terms & conditions, annual leave entitlement, routes signed, management, pension, rest day patterns, amount of weekends worked, earliest/latest starts/finishes, quality of work, how wide the movement to be given a job from spare is.... you get the drift etcetc. Often it’s easy to be drawn in by the headline salaries particularly offered by the high speed intercity TOCS but a lot more to it as I’m sure you know.