Commuters attempting to take a train ride home south of Brisbane have been held up for almost two hours after a suspicious package was discovered near Beenleigh railway station.

Roads were closed and an exclusion zone was set up near the Beenleigh train station after the item was found in Macs Lane about 5:20pm.

Specialist police, including the Explosive Ordnance Response Team, were called in, and "safely removed the suspicious device without incident" about 7:37pm.

It caused disruptions to the Beenleigh, Gold Coast and Airport train lines in.

Passengers were warned to brace for delays of up to 75 minutes as buses were brought in to ferry passengers between stations.

Earlier in the evening, commuter Andrew McKinnon said it took him two hours to travel from Roma Street station to Kuraby - a trip that normally takes less than 30 minutes.

"A few people are cranky. I was sitting next to one who was swearing at everyone," he said.

He said the hold up would see him miss his final transfer bus of the day from Helensvale train station on the Gold Coast.

"I'll have to walk two and a half hours home."

Commuter Julien Legrand, trying to get home to the Gold Coast from Brisbane, said the buses ferrying passengers to Ormeau station were packed.

"Everyone is handling it well overall," he said.

"Not as chaotic as it could be given the time of day and the weather."