Engineers making £63,000 per year, that's a good one. Maybe in O&G, if you're a manager, if you're an academic or work in North America then you'll make that.
Getting into a top engineering school is relatively easy as there's not much variation in quality between engineering courses once you get into the top 10-15 (20 for bigger subjects like Mech), if you can get AAB or even ABB you're pretty much set.
There's a good variety of disciplines which fit what you're looking for once you get down to the individual modules that different universities offer. Mechanical, Electromechanical, Aerospace, Systems, Mechatronics, Robotics. You could also do General Engineering although that will be a difficult course, especially for 'catch up' type courses where you take a mix of disciplines in first and second year then specialise fully in third and fourth year, taking the same modules as someone who has done that discipline from the start, i.e. you have to catch up for the content you weren't taught.