Can someone in the UK please tell me what the hell this noise is?

[aphex]

I heard it down in London... Now i hear it all the time here from my dorm in Oxford...

I wish i could record it, but its random, so i can never tell when its coming...

It sounds almost like a car horn, but its two tones (high and low), that play in succession...

Almost sounds comical..... Waaaaaaaaaaa (high) Waaaaaaaaaaa (low) - think of a cartoon

Is it a car horn for some strange car? a train? a strange grotesquely large pigeon?

 

[Confused]

Ambulance?
Police car?
Fire engine?

Of course it could be one of the new "craze" ring-tones - who knows what crap people have on their phones now-a-days!


Try to record it...!


Edit: Is it just once it goes, or is it repeated? If it's once, it could quite possibly be a train if you've got a train line near you.

 

[OutHouse]

emergency sirine?

 

[Hammer]

i think you're describing a cop car there

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Confused
Ambulance?
Police car?
Fire engine?

Of course it could be one of the new "craze" ring-tones - who knows what crap people have on their phones now-a-days!


Try to record it...!


Edit: Is it just once it goes, or is it repeated? If it's once, it could quite possibly be a train if you've got a train line near you.

I don't think the train is all too close, but the noise sounds fairly far away... Its pretty loud, and echos a tad around the buildings here...

It just goes once, but randomly all times of the day.

 

[aphex]

No, its not a cop car, it only sounds like once and hour, just like one waaaa waaaaaa. then nothing.

 

[Juice Box]

its an ambulance....heard em all the time while in europe

 

[OutHouse]

ask one of the locals??

 

[compnovice]

Hmmmm....Sounds like Nessie escaped from Lochness.....

 

[piroroadkill]

Record/ask someone there.

 

[Qwest]

the olympics?

 

[Mrvile]

It's obviously the Live 8...

 

[richardycc]

isnt oxford right near the train station?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: richardycc
isnt oxford right near the train station?

Its not all that far, but what english town isnt? It's a good 20 minute walk from where i am.

 

[imported_Phil]

Are you near any industrial areas? Which part of Oxford - I go there regularly?

 

[Caesar]

Some sort of factory siren?

 

[Taggart]

It IS a train, I heard that all the time when I stayed at Worcester College at Oxford in 2002!!!

Worcester is the college nearest the train station.

I had the damndest time figuring that out too.

 

[Saint Nick]

how much does it cost to go to oxford. are you rich?

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: jndietz
how much does it cost to go to oxford. are you rich?

I did a study abroad for one semester in 2002. We had instructors from my school (in Atlanta), so I wasn't really GOING to Oxford, just staying in the dorm really while attending class.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

It's a train.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: jndietz
how much does it cost to go to oxford. are you rich?

Same as taggart, but mine is through OSU Law School.... It was $2000 cheaper than spending the summer at my home university, Stetson law.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Taggart
It IS a train, I heard that all the time when I stayed at Worcester College at Oxford in 2002!!!

Worcester is the college nearest the train station.

I had the damndest time figuring that out too.

Now you come to mention it, a train horn would sound quite like what aphex is describing