The report in the newspaper said the tunnel is near the village of Walim, 12 miles from Walbrzych where the hunt has been centred.

A report in the Gazeta Wroclawska claims that the two men who found the original Gold Train have reported another discovery.

The two men who said they found a lost World War II-era Nazi ghost train in Poland have identified themselves amid claims that the train’s existence was a hoax.

Two treasure hunters set off a world frenzy in mid-August once they reported to authorities within the Decrease Silesian fort city of Walbrzych that that they had situated a greater than 300-foot-long practice buried in a tunnel close to the rail line that leads from the regional capital, Wroclaw.

The train carrying gold and gems is rumoured to have disappeared while travelling through a mountain tunnel to Walbrzyc towards the end of the Second World War.

“We have irrefutable proof of its existence”.

Tomasz Samsudin, head of the district government, added: ‘We cannot say for sure that the so-called golden train i located in the vicinity of Walbrzych’.

According to Koper and Richter’s statement, the train is not in a tunnel, as previously thought, but buried underground. He said the finders had been tipped off to the location by a man who helped hide the train 70 years ago.

He said: “We do not know what is inside the train. There is no mention of valuables: just military equipment”.

Authorities in the Lower Silesia region have warned from the outset of the purported discovery of the legendary treasure train that if it does exist, it may have been fixed with explosives or mounted guns to protect its cargo.

Scores of treasure hunters have descended on the area in the hope of finding some of the haul.

Decrease Silesia was a part of Germany earlier than the Nazi defeat in 1945 and Wroclaw, then generally known as Breslau, was a necessary army staging space for the Third Reich till Soviet Purple Military forces started advancing on the Germans within the final months of the struggle. In particular, they decried the radar graphic the men provided to support their claim.

Dr Hossein Tudeshki from the Institute of Mining of the Technical University of Clausthal in Germany could not rule out a fake, stating: “In an extreme case the image may be a cheap computer animation”.