As the name suggests, the WRTL / Industria Pathfinder was designed for use on pathways and cycleways. They were post-top only, with an off-centre optic system to distribute the light from the lamp accordingly. They could run compact-fluorescent, high-pressure sodium or metal halide lamps.

Burton-upon-Trent

A surviving Pathfinder is located on a cycleway at the end of Callister Way.

For reasons that may be branch-related, the hinged column could not be lowered, and it was left to be done at a later date.

Loughborough

A damaged Pathfinder was discovered along Clay Pipe Jitty. It appears to be looking into a career as a bowl.

The rest of the columns were LED, but why this one was left isn't clear. It may be due to the pathway being too narrow for a bucket van, but this shouldn't be an issue considering it is base-hinged. There are windows next to it, as well as some kind of unit attached to the wall, so perhaps they prevent it lowering, or someone had their windows wide-open when the others were done.

Newcastle-under-Lyme

These installations are in Bradwell Woods - and are long-abandoned.

None of these are in great condition. They are littered with pellet holes, water ingress, and missing parts. rusty water has gathered in this ones bowl.

The next Pathfinder was in the best condition:

If I recall, this one had some damage to one side of it.

This one provided quite a nice side-profile of the pathfinder.

The installations are about 3m tall, and this shows in their condition. Not one of these 3m examples is intact!

Two columns lay in the undergrowth, these would have also held Pathfinders previously.

Anything's an improvement! The next column was upright, and the remains of a Pathfinder were still attached.

The base compartment had been stripped of the isolator and backboard.

The next column was in much-the-same state, but it still had a backboard installed in the base.

Moss completely covered the "inside" of this Pathfinder. Nowadays, an earth cable is the only indication that this mangled piece of plastic ever held any kind of electrical components.

The next column had no remains of a lantern on it, but did have a backboard and the remains of a Lucy isolator.

The Pathfinder is in virtually the same condition as the last one.

The next Pathfinders were all on 6m mid-hinged columns. The increase in height meant that these Pathfinders had escaped the level of vandalism that the 3m examples had succumbed to.

The next Pathfinder had a huge chunk of the bowl missing. The way in which it has cracked indicates that this damage was done by multiple shots and impacts to the lanterns bowl.

The final Pathfinder on the pathway was mostly intact, and the column's isolator was hanging out of the base.

Tamworth

This was the first Pathfinder I'd seen in person. However, this isn't any old Pathfinder, because it is cycling. I only spotted it by chance, tucked away in an alleyway, cycling away! I just so happened to walk past the entrance to the alleyway as it turned off, and it caught my eye. As I approached I thought it was a Thorn Civic 1 or a WRTL 2600. Boy, was I happy to find one of these! Unfortunately I wasn't out photographing streetlights and thus didn't have my camera on me, so not much was yet known about this lantern and the pictures weren't the best quality. If I'd guess, it runs 50W SON and has a Zodion Photocell.

- An update on this lantern, I visited it at night and the lamp had now reached EOL. It no-longer cycled or worked at all.

I also visited the Pathfinder again on 16th December 2023 during a rather-warm winter afternoon.

The Pathfinder was replaced recently, and I was sadly not around to save it. A Holophane S-Line took it's place.

Uttoxeter

These examples are located off Hockley Road.

Zodion NEMA photocells are employed upon the canopies to operate each lantern.

A break in the trees allowed the second one to be seen without obstruction: