What type of Wood is these ?

I've been busy today sanding the staircase banister to get a key so I can repaint satin white . Anyway I sanded a bit more and saw the wood underneath which looked really nice from a little patch . I've done a whole 2 lengths and cleaned it up it looks great I am not painting the top two banisters now .

I'd like to know what type of wood do you think been used ? I think and hope its Oak , the lowest banister is pine ( 2nd pic ) ? The house were built around the 50's early 60's.

 

Looks like pine, its not oak.
I'd say just standard softwood.

 

Sorry @Perki I misunderstood, you are saying that the handrail looks to be a different wood to the knee rail.

It looks a bit mottled in colour but I still think it's all the same type of timber.

 

The two top rails are the same I just haven't sanded / cleaned the top rail after stripping the gloss its still got powder marking on it except near the mug . The bottom rail looks a lot different to me in colour anyway , that what throwing me off thinking the top 2 rails might be oak the colour matching my light oak wood stain and the bottom rail pine .


I got a piece of Redwood ( Pine ) next to it the grain the very similar but not the colour . But the bottom rail looks like it .


It probably well is a softwood of some kind I still be surprised if it were a hardwood, the houses were just knocked up after the war.

 

You get a lot of variation in softwoods different species often get all lumped in together under the same heading.
There was a trend during that period when your house was built to use something called Parana pine for making stair strings, the two pieces of timber either side that the treads and risers fit into .
Mainly because it came in wide boards and avoided having to joint two pieces together.
I'm not saying it is that, just that it is possible, it's recognizable by having red streaks here and there.

 

The house here was built 1945-ish, Perki, and faced with gutting it at the outset and biting the bullet to strip all the wood down to the bare, a joiner identified it as Canadian Pine. This might have been a big thing at the time, given the war. Sadly, a pic won’t do you any favours, as I stained it all redwood and varnished it clear satin. Hasn’t needed any attention since and it’s close to multiple donkeys now.

 

My house was built in 1947 and most of the original joinery was what I call pitch pine, a Canadian species as you say Malus, it's really hard in comparison to what passes as general softwood these days.
Timber types and names have always been blurred IMO.

 

@Perki, what actually happens is when they cut a log of timber you can cut it in different ways.
Not easy to explain but your piece of redwood is what is known as quarter sawn, the hand and knee rails are flat sawn.
When you cut a circular section log you get some of each, but logs can be cut to produce more of one type than the other.
That's a bit over simplified.