In Coach Alarms on Voyagers and Pendolinos

[Crossover]

A question for you all which has interested me over the past nearly 3 years but have only just got round to posting about it.
I have looked on the forum and it doesn't seem to have been asked already.

It is regarding in coach alarms on Voyagers and Pendolinos - usually a combination of 3 notes put together in different orders and at different speeds. Does anyone know what they mean?

For one of the Voyager ones, the only thought I have for it is if someone is stood stopping the doors between carriages from closing as it happened once when this occured, but it could have been coincidence.

I was on a Pendo the other week and the same sequence "played" about 3 separate times within 5 minutes - the most I have ever heard it.

Hopefully you will all know which I mean, but to clarify, I have attached one of the sound files from the Network West Midlands BVE4 route which demonstrates what I mean (zipped as WAV files aren't allowed)
If you are the owner of the file, hope you don't mind me using it for this purpose.

Thanks All

 

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If it is the same one I have heard then it is the emergency alarm in the toilet and is extremely annoying, I remember a journey when a person/many people over the course of the journey set it off countless times,possibly 20.
I've also heard people set it off on Meridian's.

 

[Geezertronic]

I thought that the long drawn out one on the 390s was for the Train Manager to contact the Driver? This always seems to play just before the TM announces a problem?

 

[leedstraindude]

Its the crew call tone. Its what the train crew use to communicate with each other. The Driver call is much lower tones much slower.

 

[Crossover]

Thanks for the info so far
I think the Pendo one is slower
Probably the driver wanting a cuppa!

The Voyagers I think it is have a 2 tone one as well (can't remember which I have heard it on)

Crew call then on these trains is much better than the 185's where is a random noise and then a message across the PIS asking a member of staff to go to the phone - blatently then everyone knows whats happening!