The article disclosed the contents of a conceptual approach to the formation of an intellectually-oriented development management of the railway transport enterprises, identified the components and elements of this system.

The article highlighted the organizational-economic mechanism of development of railway transport enterprises, its components (organizational and economic mechanisms) and are defined and their essence is opened.

It is offered the methods of an estimation of the general level of development of the railway transport’s enterprises on the basis of allocation and evaluation of its components in the article.