Tens of thousands of people were inthestation waiting to board a train when railway officials announced a last-minute change inthe platform, triggering the chaos.
People thronged to the main hospital in Allahabad to see if their relatives were among 36 dead and 30 people injured in Sunday evening's stampede at the city's trainstation.
On a recent day in a trainstation, commuter Alejandro Gonzales said that a million more people are now crowded onto the subways since Transantiago did away with many of the old bus routes.