the stop at meerut is not to connect mtc-ndls but to connect meerut city with other towns like haridwar and dehradun. furthermore it is an imp town in UP. In an earlier blog I had suggested that SRE be skipped to make it around 40-45 mins faster. Anyways now all this will be done once we have the new Roorkee-Deoband line which scheduled to be functional by 2011. read the following website
in.news.yahoo.com/32/20081004/1053/tnl-survey-done-for-rail-route-from-roor_1.html