If your a Train Operator aka driver I assume with LU it really depends on how secure you feel your future is with LU until the end of your career.
Being a Signaller is a world away from a TO, depending on where you work obviously you could be overseeing upto 30 trains at any one time with all the issues that throws up.
Add into the mix faults or failures, phone calls from TDA, TRC, set swaps, swaps of set swaps and you soon end up jiggling more plates than you have hands.
But....that’s what makes the job fun and enjoyable for me anyway.
Pay, again depending on where You are ranges from circa £23,000 up to circa £49,000 basic. Opportunity to earn sums upto and over £100,000 are very realistic but you will live at work on those P60 numbers, and you’ll need to be Grade 6/7 upwards.
Average earnings for the higher grades 6/7/8/9 are around the £60-80,000 range with mild overtime.
Pension is final salary on RPS 65, we can pay extra into BRASS to form a nice little nest egg on top of your lump sum/pension after 40 years service.
No travel universally anyway of any kind, unless protected from BR service.
Generally left alone to do your job, and treated like a professional is a bonus as well.
All in all I’d recommend the job wholeheartedly.