MEERUT: Dense fog which reduced visibility to as low as 100 metres on Thursday has stopped the Allahabad-Saharanpur Nauchandi Express from moving past Meerut on its onward journey to Saharanpur for the past 7 days now. Every day the train starts from Allahabad at 5.40 in the evening to reach Meerut at about 8.30am. Once there, though, it grinds to a halt, the train's driver blinded by fog. Even as most other trains are running late on the sector by an average of 6-7 hours, the Nauchandi Express has refused to budge ahead from Meerut. A sizeable number of daily commuters between Meerut and Saharanpur have been hard hit, with the train's timing suiting office-goers and students for their up and down journeys. The Nauchandi Express remains the first preference for daily passengers in the 110-km route between the two stations. On Thursday, the train was late in reaching Meerut by 8 hours, arriving in the station only at 4.30 pm. It was the seventh day the train was terminated here. Other trains to and from the city are also running late by hours. On Wednesday, Meerut-Lucknow Rajyarani Express had to be cancelled due to its extremely late arrival at Meerut. Mumbai-Haridwar Bandra Express was running late, too, as was Delhi-Jammu Shalimar Express. The Meerut-Allahabad Sangam Express was no different. Besides, Chhattisgarh Express, Golden Temple Express, Shalimar Express, Delhi-Ambala Intercity, Ahamdabad Mail are all running late by many hours. Due to the late arrival of trains, a number of passenger have been forced to cancel their tickets. Saharanpur resident Suresh Kumar said, "Passengers who had to visit Lucknow and Allahabad have faced a lot of problem in the last couple of days. As Nauchandi Express is being terminated at Meerut, passengers have had to take the road to Meerut and then take a train from there to these cities. But even those trains are late." Station superintendent RP Tripathi told TOI: "Nauchandi Express reached eight hours late on Thursday, but today we managed to send it to Saharanpur."