Lots of sources online say it was shot on the disused platform at St James, but that was the subway scene in the second film. Some sources say it was shot at a freight siding at White Bay. If that's true then the actual station must be a set piece. You can find some behind-the-scenes footage online[1], and you can see that the staircase down to the platform is real, so that makes me doubt it was White Bay. Whatever the case, it's not at St James. You can find lots of pictures of the disused platforms online[2], and you can see the roof is totally different. I'd love to know what the actual truth is!
I think this confirms the White Bay answer. I doubt this location exists anymore. The entire Glebe Island Silos area has been heavily redeveloped since the 90s.
There was a film studio out at White Bay they filmed some of the movie at too which was demolished shortly after which likely explains the general location.
The movie certainly benefitted from filming in Sydney right before all the urban renewal kicked off. Doubt you'd be able to commander a train and a disused platform space today on their budget.
No, that subway was definitely real as well, on what used to be the city circular line. The guy missed a few of the locations such as the Oracle apartment, which is actually an apartment building in Redfern.
Although saying that I appreciate your deep reading of the film to correlate the green tiles in the kitchen as indication the oracle was more machine than something else. Or at least more part of the system. This is interesting and I think a great deep reading of it.
At the same time I also recall multiple older style kitchens that I’ve been in while growing up or renting in my early 20s that in Australia had these kind of green tiles in the kitchen. It’s quite a popular aesthetic there.
Just a meta comment here: I really like how we’re discussing in these threads whether the locations of the film the matrix are real or fabrications ha ha ha ha
